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...every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture as Big Brother-but they all respect...
...intruders who have severe misconceptions about the function of his service. At the beginning of each school year, curious freshmen keep popping in to find out why their monthly checks go astray and why they keep getting letters addressed to people in Eliot House. All Greene can do is refer them to the Information Office in Weld Hall, and offer to sell them some stamps. He does about $50 worth of stamp business each week, mostly in the three-cent variety...
...letter reveals that the athletes will be asked to refer high and prep school students they consider to be good College material to the heads of the local Clubs...
...Babcock of the Maintenance Department have been unfair to a superb creature when you refer to the Memorial Hall pigeon-killer as a "huge chicken hawk." Leaving aside the fact there is no recognized species of "chicken hawk," this particular bird is a Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum), the American version of the falcon, traditionally used for hunting...
...floods, and were apt to magnify big ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits of the Venus-comet...