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Blenheim and Waterloo. To men standing with their rain-soaked kit, conscious that in a few hours they might be dead or maimed, those words gave a little more pleasant feeling...
...stripped his kit to get the weight down as much as possible, but it was still pretty heavy. He had put on his oldest shorts and his worst shirt, his newest socks and soundest boots. He had traded a trophy stolen from a fallen Eyetie for an extra water bottle-the only item of weight he would enjoy carrying...
...Unable to house it properly on her farm, even though she built an extra wing for it, Collector Dreier toyed with the idea of giving it to a local church. Many a U.S. museum eyed it hungrily. But finally Collector Dreier made up her mind, and the whole kit & boodle went to Yale, because it was handy...
Pedalling furiously, and panting desperately, John Potter '45 puffed across the finish line first to win the annual Harvard-Wellesley bicycle race yesterday morning in 36 minutes flat. He was greeted by approximately 30 cheering maidens of the institution on Lake Waban, and was presented with a bike travelling kit for his pains...
...casual to the point of slouchiness, conspicuously lacks the ramrod posture of the German soldier or the U.S. Marine. But the equipment the U.S. soldier slouches in is, according to the U.S. Army, the best in the world. To outfit and maintain a U.S. soldier, from toilet kit (63?) to overcoat ($12.54), and buy his organizational equipment, from shovels (68?) to hymnals for the chapels ($33.75 a set), costs $262.35 a year. Complete with Garand ($96), the Army rifleman's equipment (including maintenance but not ammunition) sets the U.S. Treasury back $258.35 a year. Average annual civilian expenditure...