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...Pin-Point Bombing...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Civil Defense Will Call All Students For Duty | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

When the Korean war began, Cronin was ordered to start Civilian Defense on a war scale. But this involved changing the whole concept because, Cronin said, "In world War II we expected pin-point bombing, but now with atomic bombs, guided missiles, and bacterial warfare, we must organize a large-scale group read to cope with anything...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Civil Defense Will Call All Students For Duty | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...just don't have enough time to perfect the pin-point timing required for the more complicated plays," he said yesterday. He pointed out that the team will still have a large repertory, alternating between T and single wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twice-Downed '53 Eleven Tackles Undefeated Exeter Squad Today | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

...District Attorney of New York is not dazzled by this array of flashing, pin-point eyes and whetted consciences. Nor is he to be caught entrusting his city's character to a body of plain civilians like the Play Jury. No people except the New York Police are proper stuff for cleaning out the theatres, nobody but the Grand Jury is capable of judging and handling this rottenness in the body politic. The explanation for this stand is plain; the city government means to recruit more policemen, whether by fair means or foul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SO FAIR AND FOUL" | 12/5/1923 | See Source »

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