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...Navy is a strange animal, as many members of the Supply Corps junior class are finding out at the present ime. A few months ago the majority of the juniors were college kids. This stage was quickly followed by transition to the level of a hound (chow, liberty and/or sack variety). Now they're all, willing or no, supply beavers, gnawing away at the Manual. But the climax came early this week when Lt. Comdr. Ambrose received the literal bird during his weekly lecture to the junior class in Potter Auditorium. The bird in this case, the class ornithologist claims...
...misnomer. We should be company Dog. Our predecessors, now in Company Dog, in rare Naval style "gummed up the works" for us . . . too much entertainment at smokers too little study, failure to learn to read the face of a clock or even to interpret bells, too much sack duty. At any rate the powers that be took a look at present company D and reconsidered the schedule. Close upon our arrival at N.T.S. and still in the rain came scuttlebutt to the effect that the course would no longer be five months in length, but only four. Classes would...
Then came couriers with shattering news: Syracusae had fallen to the Romans, and in the sack a maddened legionary had run his sword through Archimedes, greatest of mathematicians,* as he did geometry in the sand...
...rebellious typewriters, misspelled words, incomplete forms, to say nothing of the many interruption for reasons which I have only hinted at earlier in this column. Despite all this, however, when the day's work is done, you will find--on the whole--that the Yeoman goes back to his sack with a smile of satisfaction. He has met his typewriter and he has subdued...
Last July, when the steaming heat lay stifling across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...