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Colonel Blimp. No matter how they react to outside critics, none can approach the British themselves at selfcriticism. No one has lampooned the British character so brilliantly as crotchety Cartoonist David Low. Last month Britons chuckled when Low wrote an article summing up the arguments of walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp, whom Low created. Said Blimp...
...bubbled through a test tube, histamine and vitamin C react with each other, releasing ammonia (the amine part of histamine) and eliminating the irritating chemical. As circulating blood contains dissolved oxygen, Dr. Holmes thought it likely that the same reaction goes on in the body, decided to see what huge quantities of vitamin C would do toward taking hay-fever sufferers' extra histamine out of circulation, in order to relieve wheezing and sneezing...
Fight. Strained, anxious, the Russians still held their morale high. A Soviet writer explained: "There is a point in all Russians beyond which they seem to become oblivious of pain and fatigue. Up to that point, they are stolid and slower to react than most Europeans. Beyond it, they perform feats of endurance far beyond the usual human measure." To survive, the Russians called for feats of endurance from their army and for feats of performance from the Russian workers...
...contact work will be the order of the day this afternoon when Dick Harlow runs his Varsity football squad through the first real scrimmage of the season in an effort to determine better how his players react under fire...
...last assignment Zinder went up into the hills of Syria to see how the natives would react if the Nazis launch their Drang nach Osten over the seas to the Bible lands. Typical tribal leader was a fat, unpredictable old chieftain of 40,000-who got his job by murdering his employer and annexing his sheep, has 18 wives and is known far and wide as "the man who calls himself...