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Toward his men, Sir Percy is precise, unostentatious, efficient in a banker's quiet way rather than with the bluff explosiveness most commanding salts are supposed to have. But he is a stiff rewards-and-punishment disciplinarian of the old grog and rod school. He has had two wives, but he is married to the Navy. When he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, his wife said: "My husband has one hobby, the Navy...
...noticeable that the poll included only those who would be affected by the present draft law and not by any new law which might go into effect in the near future. The poll was used as a measuring rod to help University officials estimate the result of the draft on the College...
...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...
...lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with rod...
...Jayvees will be without the services of fullback Bank Vander Eb, kicking expert, who is journeying to Philadelphia with the Varsity. George Duane, Elisha Atkins, Bob Haydock, and Rod Townsend, Varsity squad men who are not making the trip will play in this afternoon's contest...