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...Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns
...organs were spinal columns. In decreasing order: abdomens, chests, heads. Exactly how casualties will line up in World War II, no one can yet predict, for new weapons cause new types of wounds. For every known type, army physicians are prepared. Many British surgeons carry an up-to-date handbook on war surgery, newly published by Drs. Philip Henry Mitchiner and Ernest Marshall Cowell...
Claude Elkins runs a poolroom in little Anna, Ill. Like millions of other hardworking U. S. citizens, he seldom sees a horse race but plays the horses nevertheless-wiring his $2 bets directly to the tracks because there is no handbook operator* in little Anna. Every racing day for nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back...
...Handbook operators handle most of the esti mated billion dollars or more wagered on U. S. horse races away from the tracks each year...
Intended as a standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...