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Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...
Even before they encounter failure, Jap soldiers are anything but supermen. They are notoriously hypochondriac. They carry little oily green cakes which they rub on the skin to keep mosquitoes away. Many carry white gloves which they wear when they sleep. They carry toilet waters and perfumed powders...
Here comes the cosmic-sized rub. How can the United Nations encourage Germany to be a nation in such a family if they do not know what kind of family it is to be? Here Miss Thompson's clarity is as destructive as a blowtorch: "We" cannot help Germany make up her mind until "we" have made up "ours...
Last Saturday the Harvard soccer team played host to a squad from Clark University. During the course of the game, a Clark halfback received a head injury which demanded immediate medical attention. No doctor was present at the game; the rub-down room at Dillon was locked; and the player was carted back-and-forth until phone calls finally brought an ambulance from Stillman. Only then did a doctor treat the injury...
While at school, the executives will sleep in regular barracks, eat Army chow, learn to salute (the War Department would not say whether they would have to snap out of bunks at reveille), and learn something about the military side of fighting. Meanwhile the officers with whom they rub elbows will learn about business, from priority headaches to defects in Army contracts...