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I am unfamiliar with the regulations which the Military Science Department has laid down for those students who were fortunate enough to be admitted to the course. I choose to think that the blame does not lie with the officers in charge, but rather with the students themselves. I refer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

For his pains, he figured, he deserved something. Last fall, when he was reported to have given the President a good, two-fisted talking-to about the loose political rails gaping open in defense, some people suspected that Ed Kelly might be slated for a better political job. But nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About That Toga? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Smuggled from Sofia by nervous Bulgar officials following reports of a Nazi plot to create an "incident," two-fisted George Earle declared: "German fortunes are definitely declining, but the death throes may be unprecedentedly violent."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Returning Hero | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

At the week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Shake-Up | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Most important item on the agenda is the Council fund drive, carried on during Registration in Mem Hall. Treasurer John P. Bunker '42 will present a report on the status quo and will assign the tasks of dunning the tight-fisted students to their various representatives.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAS PROBLEM, CAR PARKING VEX COUNCIL | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

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