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Thunder rumbled over the Mediterranean one day last week. The British-French Mediterranean fleet ploughed eastward to a rendezvous at Alexandria, Egypt. Lighter craft of the Italian. Turkish and British Navies played hide & seek among the islands of the Aegean. And in London the Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean was closed to British merchant ships-they should forsake the strait at Gibraltar and go the long way to the Orient round Cape of Good Hope...
...plain dark furniture (not all antique) are as suitable to monkish taste as to "The Home Beautiful." The brothers' wholesome fare is supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb on the belltower, where boxing gloves have been seen to peep out of a dark corner...
...Tech eight, on the other hand, is lighter but has had more practice, and, as they look on the river, ought to provide plenty of opposition for the Yardling crew. Harvey Love is confident that the boat will go well once the boys get the proper mileage and water conditions, but up to now the pent up strength has been as much of a hindrance as an asset. "I am pleased with the results of the time trial Tuesday when the first beat the second by a good three lengths and was going better than it had for a week...
...ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...
...bombers Britain's (and the Allies') best bet is the big, rugged Vickers Wellington, a husky, reliable weight carrier with a top speed of 265 m. p. h., and the lighter Bristol Blenheim (about comparable in size to a Lockheed 12) with a maximum of 295. But both need fighter escorts, are not to be compared in speed with the new German Junkers Ju. 88K which has a top of 330 m. p. h., can show its heels to pursuit with any kind of start. To Ju. 88K, and the somewhat slower Heinkels and Dorniers, Britain has several...