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...thing Author Grenfell makes painfully plain: the Bismarck was a huskier fighting ship than anything Britain had built. To bring her down had taken eight battleships and battle cruisers, two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, 21 destroyers, six submarines and numerous shore-based aircraft. Captain Grenfell's account of The Bismarck Episode seemingly leaves the British Admiralty with some explaining to do about the quality of its ship construction and tactics. And while it is highly unlikely that war vessels of the traditional battleship type will ever again be built-at least...
...soon gets it. But not so in the case of G.G. and R.G. Of these medically anonymous twins, G.G. is known to his friends as "SpeedUp George," R.G. is known as "Lead in the Pants." In the process of living up to his twin brother, who is huskier and a little smarter, G.G. has become a highly sociable live wire, a Mason, a Woodman. He has also achieved a blood pressure of 180 (normal blood pressure: around 140), and has had a ngina pectoris for the last twelve years. (The twins...
...Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children...
West Virginia University has a funny-looking basketball team. In a sport where height pays off, it has only one player over 6 ft., Rudy Baric, right guard. Roger Hicks, left forward, is little larger or huskier than a jockey, while Scotty Hamilton, the other forward, is a real fat boy. Compared to most, Center Dick Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot...
...well as pencil and paper quizzes. Results: Progressive pupils scored higher than those in traditional schools in knowledge of current affairs and people, honesty, cooperation, leadership, ability in creative, writing and art, critical thinking, breadth of interests. Traditional school pupils knew more about rules of health, Progressive pupils were huskier and healthier...