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...fuse in larger brotherhood...
...from Rostov found Novelist Hughes's mid-Oklahoma notion of Russia and the war a view of uninhibited proportions. The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood...
During the siege of Boston, however, a British shell from the Copps Hill batteries landed in the Square near the President's house. The fuse was still burning, and at the risk of his life a Continental soldier ran up and stamped it out. Following this incident it was evidently decided that it was not an eligible residence for the Commander-in-Chief and headquarters were moved to the Craigle House on Brattle Street...
...Corporal Luther Leroy Roberts of Virginia, fuse-setter with an overseas anti-aircraft battery, after taking a premedical course at Washington, D.C.'s Howard (predominantly Negro) University. He was late with his trigonometry test papers; some "have been destroyed by tropical insects...
...camera does. It corresponds to a light source which shoots rays through the subject to make shadows on the film beyond. Moving the tube two and a half inches produces too much disparity in the resulting films. Viewed through a stereoscope, such pictures will not fuse...