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...potato patch stretch nets of trip wires leading from guns and mines. The slope is honeycombed with tunnels, dugouts, telephone centers and munitions dumps. Dozen upon dozen of mortar shells still stand there, packed in boxes. . . . Here, beside piles of stretchers, is a great plot of turned-up earth, 400 yards square, where the Germans had swiftly buried their dead as they withdrew. A Russian anti-tank gun, wreathed in boughs, now stands there...
...Mortar (Republic) is a succinct and interesting treatment of the mortar's origins (500 years ago as a rock thrower), its uses, and its assembly. The picture is rather technical for a layman, but undoubtedly effective for training mortar crews...
...Chinese spirit is more durable than brick and mortar. The adaptable citizens of Chungking immediately started enlarging dugouts, so that work could be carried on there. Mass evacuations to the country began. The no-immediate-danger signal was sounded sooner, so that dugout denizens could get more air. Construction began on a new Press Hostel...
...Banda . . . fade into the night. ... At 2:30 a.m. enemy firing starts in earnest. They're firing right down our lines, the peeng of their ricochets strikes me as being as funny as hell. ... In the meantime our machine guns open fire and we lob two mortar shells into the bush, and the Gold Coast add to the noise by firing rifle grenades and by the time I have made up my mind where to place myself the whole show is over and back I go to sleep...
Year after year, since in primeval times brick and mortar were slapped together to make the ancient catacombs of Thayer and Grays, the heritage of namelessness has passed from the Age that is Past to the Age that is Going Before. Far back in the mists of time Seniors, who once occupied the Yard, found their way from building to building by an instinct developed through long practice, not to mention an aptitude inherited from Cambridge ancestors plus a trace of Indian blood. But modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge...