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Throughout the evening the Crimson looked good when it managed to clear the puck out of its own zone, but defensively there appeared room for a good deal of improvement, and the puck chasers' aged but very agile opponents managed to hem them in a good part of the evening...
General Weygand's retirement would add one more chapter to a life story that in the last 20 years has consisted mostly of recalls from retirement during crises-the defense of Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand...
Howard Greer (formerly Paramount's designer, now turned free lance): fishtail hem lines on daytime dresses...
...back of it he must certify his United States citizenship. After a certain amount of formal red tape has been untangled, Eli is given a job, working 26 hours a month at $50 an hour, mimeographing Psychology outlines in Emerson Hall. His $13 a month will not net hem more than $100 a year. It may be that his T.S.E. job will be cut to a certain extent, let us say $50. He will then make a net increase of income...
...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...