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...University doesn't want you to spend any more money than you have to--the world situation being what it is. Well, you get your picture taken, then take it back to Cambridge, where you will be met by Yard Cops or other persons of authority who will escort you to an office "somewhere in the Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational...
...Trevor, sent his men probing for information about Nazi defenses in that likely invasion sector. Commando machine guns and anti-tank guns, brought ashore in parts and quickly assembled, silenced a German pillbox. Rattled Nazis fired at each other. Nazi tracers lanced out toward the barges and naval-escort vessels, waiting offshore. The British spotted two German patrol vessels, sank one and set another blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther along the shore, R.A.F. fighter-bombers attacked German searchlights...
...barges, again laden, made off to their mother ships. One of the naval-escort vessels ran aground on a sandspit, survived a curtain of German fire. One of the barges put back toward the shore to look for missing stragglers, found none, then loosed a last burst of Bren-gun fire at the Germans. Dawn was rising when the party turned home to England...
...Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...
...inevitable mistakes, delays, confusion in the Navy's fleet-building program. But if Mr. Lippmann had pressed his inquiry he would have discovered that Navy production transcends anything dreamed of a year ago; that production records are being shattered as battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and the sorely needed escort ships and sub-chasers slide down the ways; that U.S. naval ' builders know a great deal about mass production; that ships are being mass-produced; that, in short, naval construction in the last five months has been phenomenal...