Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part one of the inner circle's secrets is Chief Boston, or Clarence as he was known at birth. Chief claims no compact with the fates, no Demosthenesian tongue between the halves or elsewhere--but the inspiration is there nonetheless, and it starts with the coach. Boston is a player's coach, a believer in teaching by doing, and a teacher who knows...
...Inner Calls. The study of hum appeal was pure science. More practical was the study of biting habits (female only). The Army learned that skin color makes little difference. A victim's hand bathed in green light was bitten as readily as the same hand bathed in red. Mosquitoes, probably, can see only large masses in black-&-white. They are repelled somewhat by a black or a white shirt, prefer intermediate shades. A female mosquito with eyes removed can find a victim; but with antennae removed, she goes hungry...
Until the time he goes back to China he will continue to work in his book crammed office on the second floor of Langdell. This office contains, in the persons of himself and his secretary, Mrs. McCarthy, who has been with him since 1916, more knowledge of the inner workings of the Harvard Law School than can be found anywhere else in the world. Here too are tangible reminders of the many honors he has received--degrees and awards from England, Italy, France, China, and other countries. On a table beind his desk stands a porcelain statue made...
Last month gloom deepened; Mabel disappeared. Gripp was grief-stricken. Then he too disappeared. In inner Tower circles it is suspected that Mabel's kidnapper kidnaped Gripp to keep her company. All over Britain farmers offered replacements...
Everywhere the Nationalist armies smashed ahead. In the biggest week of Government successes since the undeclared civil war began, all but a few miles of China's strategic railroad lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol...