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Shilling's Lookouts. This is one of the ways lookouts for submarines are selected and trained. Lookout duty, once a punishment, is now so important that the men get extra privileges. All day the submarine on war patrol waits and watches at its undersurface station, hoping for a target...
Here in the jungle we have a ward of patients who are too sick to go on and we run an outpatient department, where we have had nearly 100 cases in one day. I have counted over 40 large ulcers, as big as a shilling, on each of the legs...
"Grycie," yelled a visiting British tar, "do us a cartwheel!" Gracie Fields, once the world's highest paid comedienne, obliged. Then, opening her full bag of tricks, she displayed the wares that had hoisted her from a shilling-a-week trouper to first lady of the English music halls...
A movie, The Secret of the Loch, provided four weeks' work for 20 unemployed men. Captain D. J. Munro,R.N. (retired), proposed to form a Loch Ness Monster Co., Ltd., to sell shares for a shilling each, and to put up watchtowers on the loch shore staffed by Navy...
The price of vegetables is prohibitive for most people. Lettuce sells at a shilling a head, broccoli at a shilling a pound, mushrooms at five shillings a pound, cauliflower at one shilling sixpence a head. At Cambridge, undergraduates have begun, not very heartily, to eat grass, on recommendation of the...