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...Funsters' Bike Club has been in training for weeks in preparation for the exhaustive 90-mile bike race to Smith. The training has consisted of a thorough study of the road map to Northampton, so that no cyclist will lose his way and his energy on a blind road. The second phase of the intensive training begins soon and consists of lining up six Smith girls who will be expected to provide six free meals to each contestant. Just before the race the Funsters will fill themselves with beer so that none will be tempted to touch the evil liquor...
...whether reports like these were true, as they might be, or just part of the war of nerves, the British had still to consider seriously the possibility that the Germans, in developing the giant southern claw of the Suez pincer (see map, p. 29), might attack Egypt not along the coastal road but on a front deep enough to get away from naval bombardment and wide enough to flow right around islands of British resistance...
...corollary of this was that Turkey's Aegean flank was bare. Turkey's Black Sea flank was also bare now that Germany controlled the entire length of the Danube. So giant pincers on Turkey (see map) seemed to be in the blueprints. It might be no more than political pincers, to make Turkey come to terms. After the Balkan fight, Turkey might be induced to give in. But if necessary, the great pincers might be used militarily...
Designed to serve as a complete introductory guide to the study of map and serial photograph reading, the course will progress from work on scales, projections and contour lines to field sketching and stereoptical study. Erwin Raisz, instructor in Geographical Exploration, will give the course, for which applications should be made at the Institute on 2 Divinity Avenue...
Before long, Promoter Simms, by radio appeals and cross-country combing, had rounded up a squad of players good enough to beat many a rival second-class team. But press agentry, more than prowess, put St. Mary's on the map. Coach Simms sent out elaborate brochures telling sportswriters about the "most colorful college football team" in the U.S. He succeeded in getting games with reputable colleges from coast to coast and border to border, took his players on their crisscross-country tours in a $27,000 bus, "the biggest bus in the world...