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...fact, the most interesting aspect of the Forum Edition's growth has been the variety of uses to which the films have been put. Several large city police forces, for example, are using "The American Cop" to help instruct rookie patrolmen. A manufacturing concern, which had originally acquired prints of all films dealing with foreign countries to provide background information for their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...
...Roman Catholics, of course, we do not believe in putting our findings into practice, but . . . we judge that we should be free to instruct less imaginative fellows who are not so morally restricted...
Ever since rugby coach ex-officio Syd Cabot left for the West Coast soon after the very successful 1944 wartime schedule was completed, Crimson rugby players have been without a mentor. Last spring a delayed search for a man to instruct ruggers in the finer points of scrummaging found no one capable for the task, and that is the problem any '48 Varsity team must face. And unlike filling a gridiron teaching post, it is difficult even to find a man cognizant of rugby rules...
...local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway, he said, "I reckon to know more about how to till my own land than any Government official." Defiantly...