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...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
...Flangers shear snow from the inside of rails...
...Smith is a New Jersey-born expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign to shear the literary locks of the Puritan poetic Samson. Once more Smith raises the now famous question: Why does Ezra Pound...
...site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...
Rhapsodized Dr. Shear: "The public and private life of the great city over millennia of time, its history and art, its bloom and decay, in fact the whole typical course of human destiny, are revealed in the results of this excavation...