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From Tokyo next day came an announcement : Wake was taken; it had been defended by 3,000 officers and men. To Jimmie Devereux-whom his civilian friends knew as an affable gentleman jockey, whom Marines knew as a studious, hard-fighting professional-and to the 378 Marines, alive and dead, of his command, the Jap had paid a fitting tribute...
Finally Lawyer Stirrett stalked out, made a little trip to the office of the mining recorder. Examining maps and blueprints of International's holdings, he became very interested. As well as studious Mr. Stirrett could tell, International had neglected to register mineral rights to some land near its Creighton mine (the company's biggest producer in World War I)-including part of the company town of Creighton...
...their crews for the annual one-mile race which concludes the fall season. In the meantime Bolles will spend his time trying to improve what many thought to be an impeccable crew last spring. "There is no such thing as a perfect crew man," says Bolles, and until the studious mastermind of Harvard rowing finds eight of them Harvard will continue to row in the fall, and probably after...
Britain last week awarded the George Medal for civilian bravery to a conscientious objector. Recipient was a studious, 35-year-old insurance agent, Henry Frank ("Monty") Finch. The award was posthumous...
Besides being a hurrier, Peter Portal is studious, thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...