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...kans fighters met handicaps. Landlords and peasants alike protested the "ruining of the land." Many a native tractor driver, leaving his machine in a field overnight, returned to find a tiger sleeping in the driver's seat. Wild elephants, nature's tractors, frequently came to inspect their mechanized cousins. Bulldozers had to be drafted to build roads through the wilderness to carry fuel to the big machines. Despite India's heat and dust, the drivers-many of whom had driven tanks in the Indian army-kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared...
...afternoon Tedder will tour the University, and will also make a special trip to the Annex. He will inspect Holden Chapel, given to the University in the 18th century by the widow of Samuel Holden, a prominent English Dissenter...
Feeney refuses to allow Cambridge Building Commissioner Stephen F. Spenger to inspect his home at 990 Putnam Avenue. He says that a complaint to Spencer that he is an excommunicated rest is a lie, and that the "sacred privacy of the home' is being invaded as part of a "malicious persecution' instituted by Archbishop Cushing...
...snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel, rubber and wire. The rest of Task Force Growdon clanked...
Grutzner uncovered the story of one "prairie university" which "took a planeload of New England high-school athletes halfway across the country to inspect the plant and 'meet the boys.' " Another college has 140 special athletic scholarships, which pay $55-a-month living expenses to athletes, $75 to married...