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When Japanese wrestling was mentioned, the inevitable question about jiu-jitsu was raised. Pat calls jiu-jitsu a type of "aesthetic dancing." A good wrestler can lick a jiu-jitsu expert any time, provided the combatants don't wear jackets while fighting, Pat declared. The art of jiu-jitsu is used to teach detectives, army and navy officers, G-men, and policemen how to disarm a man, and the numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever...
...their collisions with the glass should have broken the stillness; instead, the absence of a sound where there should have been one made a crevice in the night, transforming it into a riot of noise by contrast. Reflected in the glass he could see the flames in the fireplace lick across the wood, hushing its crackle...
...September directed a blast at the New Deal when he retired. Last week he wrote: "Much of our present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten...
...Force the withdrawal of the invader. Restore to us our trampled-on rights as the legitimate Government. In a few months, perhaps in a few weeks, peace will come spontaneously." In short, without foreign intervention and with belligerent rights granted to the Government, the Leftists claim they could soon lick Generalissimo Franco...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...