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...wounded were brave and angry men, and it filled the passengers with bravery and anger to talk to them. In one cabin a sailor, whose right leg had been amputated at the knee, gazed across the room at another lad, with his left leg gone, lying morose and silent, too unhappy even to speak. The sailor wrote a note, with the grim humor of the valiant: "How about a dance?" The lad grinned, began to talk...
...excellent boy, a very fine lad. Everyone in the school liked him; he had no enemies because of his perfect self-control...
...Come, my lad, and drink some beer...
...Casner's University Hall office contains most of the answers for economists, chemists, and engineers. But in the less obvious fields the information is either nowhere or else scattered over the countryside among several instructors and Army Bureaus. Of course any ambitious lad with some diligence and luck, can eventually track down the answers to his questions and determine whether he can include a vital course in his program, or whether he already has one. However, a real effort by the University to collect the relevant facts would not only save useless steps and interviews but actually increase the number...
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth last week reviewed a newly arrived contingent of U.S. and Canadian volunteers for various R.A.F. services. The cheery Queen stopped in front of a lad of six feet three in the Canadian contingent and remarked: "All you Canadians seem to be tall...