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...what had been agreed, the General was not specific. Close listeners to his program speech detected a lack of program. Jokingly he said that he was "perfectly willing to equip our army with knives and paper shields, provided only our neighbors do the same." Seriously he promised no further tax-upping, no further Federal wage-cutting, greater freedom of the press and other pleasant things. "Joyous co-operation on the part of all classes," he declared, would enable him to keep these promises and he warned the Communists not to misbehave...
...that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
When Dr. Langmuir was young he was "that inquisitive boy," a nuisance to his aunts. 'He probably proceeded into chemistry instead of some other science because his older brother, who was studying chemistry, answered questions, helped him equip a child's chemistry laboratory. That older brother is now Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, shellac & glycerine expert, donor of the $1,000 Langmuir prize for precocity in chemistry...
...course not all of this money is spent on supplies and wages alone. Nearly two thirds of the football expenditure goes as guarantees to the visiting teams. Subtract the guarantees from the original figure, and the more modest total of $113,000 remains as the sum necessary to equip, coach, and rub the squad. Football on Soldiers Field is distinctly a commercial proposition, a fact which may strike home among the many alumni and others who, while supporting the weekly institution, still cry out about high-priced tickets, and over-emphasis...
Unlike Transamerican, which sent Pilot Parker D. ("Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...