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...Waving Feather Duster...
Accusing the President of following a policy of "calling names and waving a big feather duster," Professor Wernette cited business indices in his appeal for defense and prosperity. In his view, Roosevelt is the greatest "bottleneck" of all in the defense program because of his desire to investigate each item of the program before it goes into effect...
...Beta Lyrae pair into the smaller at speeds around 200 miles per second-so fast that some of it is hurled clear beyond the small star to form a tail like a comet's. As the stars revolve the tail is dragged around behind them, like a lagging feather...
...each other; actually, it developed, it was to mean an Orient for the enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather on an old hat, his new Government revised his threadbare slogan to read: New Order in Greater East Asia...
...before he went overseas in 1918, became a troop movement officer and later a Judge Advocate (Army for lawyer) for the Service of Supply. Later he was professor of law at West Point, adviser to a succession of international military conferences in Geneva between 1925 and 1932. Biggest military feather in his cap: handling of the troop movements of the A. E. F. for the St. Mihiel offensive, of the movements of the Fourth Corps into the Argonne. For this job he got the Distinguished Service Medal. At 60, spectacled General Strong sits at the ornate desk once owned...