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Maurice Tillet, the French Angel (as opposed to the new Swedish Angel) paid a scientific visit to the University again yesterday, but this time he came not as a specimen, but as a student. For an hour, Tillet and his manager, Carl Pojello (former coach of wrestling at Oxford and Cambridge) browsed around Peabody Museum...
...statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
...slightest opportunity to cut the other's throat. The only hand between them is the memory of their common "Aunt Lucy" whose ghostly form makes numerous and picturesque appearances throughout the picture. Bing eventually comes out the winner. He gets the girl. But Bob manages to corral a choice specimen from his temporary harem, and he doesn't seem a bit dissatisfied with his fate...
Another notable part of the collection is a group of 60 large and perfect specimen of irreplaceable lavender blue porcelains of the thirteenth century, rare among American and European museums...
...that they could contribute more in a technical position than they could as a draftee. These men were dissatisfied with the Bureau at first because they felt that it held no information applicable to them, and in most respects their position was justified. The problem of the perfect physical specimen has now been reduced by the establishment of various Army and Navy reserve enlistment programs, and the specialist in the sciences can find any number of openings either through his Department or through enquiry at the Bureau...