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With the exception of a slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend...
Foundries and factories all over Britain were shutting down. London Midland & Scottish long-distance trains were running three to four hours late because the coal supply was irregular and of poor quality. In Sheffield 20,000 steelworkers had an enforced six-day Christmas holiday while firms scraped together enough coal to carry on. Day after the holidays, absenteeism reached 80% in one mine. But 95% of the men showed up that night to collect their pay. The hum of industry was turning everywhere into a mournful wail: "We have only three days' stock of coal in hand...
Since some Democratic Senators are almost certain to back Bilbo, right or wrong, the question of how to unseat The Man will devolve on the Senate's 51 Republicans. Their problem: whether to refuse Bilbo a seat on charges that his election was "irregular" (which would take only a majority vote), or seat and then attempt to oust him on charges of "moral turpitude" (which would require a two-thirds vote...
...remember our irregular meals, irregular hours and times of sleep, and constant climatic changes that at best are not conducive to good health. Remember that we take a rigid physical exam every six months and on the day we fail to pass, we're thru. Remember that TWA has no pension plan whatever...
...knows why the pole shifts. No one even knows why the earth is a magnet. Madill has a theory that the pole moves in an irregular orbit, completing its slow cycle in a matter of centuries. He keeps watch on its movements, working through a corps of super-tough field men. They have to be tough: observations in comfortable latitudes are helpful but not sufficient. Pole spotters have to travel into the Arctic where the pole hides out. This year three Madillmen surrounded the pole, set up delicate instruments to chart its lines of magnetic force...