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...germinates, Hodge steps in sight for the first time and everybody knows the solution. In bringing about a happy fourth act, he foils three members of the caste, restores ten of them to health, regenerates one and marries one--all in the same evening. And if self-assurance was sand, Hodge would be the Sahara desert...
Eleven candidates tried out last night most of them taking the affirmative side of the question, which ran as follows: "Resolved, that the French government should take by taxation at least 75 per cent of the excess profits made by French manufacturer sand tradesmen during the war." The three judges who decided upon the speakers were R. L. Hawkins, L. J. A. Mercier, and E. L. Raiche, all of the French Department of the University. Candidates were allowed to make a five-minute speech on either side of the question at these first trials...
...mutually antagonistic objects in view. In its worst aspects it unquestionably extends to different forms of treason. But beyond a few leaders, it has no real organization of any kind. These men the government has been arresting. As a result the whole structure has crumbled like a pillar of sand, scattering the individual members over the country where they are still free, however, to do much as they have done in the past...
...monster-pink will make their appearance in Flanders, side by side with serpent mottled and zebra striped. The armies may view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...part of the time will be spent in shooting at known ranges. Each man will shoot the regular army qualification course for his record, which provides for 10 shots at 300 yards, 5 sitting and 5 kneeling, 10 shots prone at 500 yards, and 10 shots prone with a sand bag rest at 600 yards; and also, at rapid fire, for 10 shots at 200, 300, and 500 yards in one minute, one minute and 10 seconds, and one minute and 20 seconds respectively...