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Post-Mortem. By midnight the action was over, the northern Italian squadron had never joined battle. Later eight reconnaissance planes flew out over the scene and saw hundreds of Italians on life rafts. British units came back and picked up over 900 men-and found two ways to rub into Benito Mussolini's hide his Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged...
...important thing about Gold Coast is not its architecture, nor its location, but its atmosphere. Probably more than any other House, Adams realizes President Conant's ideal of a cross section of the country, where all types rub elbows in a jovial informality...
...million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with...
Undergraduates won't have to rub any Aladdin's lamp to find themselves thrilling thousands with their voices, or to have the satisfaction of building up popular radio programs, because this evening the Crimson Network is prepared to offer them these opportunities if they come to a meeting at 7 o'clock in Sheppard Hall studios...
...rest of the Faculty whose haughty dignity frosted anyone without at least a full beard and a full professorship, Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books...