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...question of attendants, the college could kill two birds with one stone by giving these Sunday jobs to needy students under the Temporary Students Employment Plan. The Indoor Athletic Building could be easily manned by a skeleton crew of four or five men to distribute towels, see to equipment and lights, and close up the building. As for the pool, there are many qualified Red Cross Examiners in college who would be only too glad to earn some extra money by acting as lifeguards while the regular staff...
...Leftist destroyer José Luis Diez limped into Falmouth, England, seriously damaged by Rightist air bombs. Most of her crew of 60 left the ship, claiming that they would be shot as "Reds" if they returned to Rightist Spain, as "deserters" if taken back to Leftist Spain. A loyal skeleton crew took her to France for repairs, and fortnight ago the José Luis Diez was again ready for action...
...Infantry has 57,286 enlisted men, 3,568 officers in 36 skeleton regiments, two tank regiments. Blue-eyed, able Chief of Infantry George A. Lynch admits that the U. S. Infantry's organization is outmoded by foreign armies, tells his officers to think hard and fast. Meanwhile, the Infantry's equipment is excellent in type, deficient in quantity...
Westerner: Shades of Buffalo Bill, mister! You should've seen these deserts four years ago. White and dry like a steer's skeleton...
...their sessions the Esperantists discussed only one thing: how to popularize their synthetic lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...