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Some of the youngsters gave their elders some real scores to shoot at. Edward Harris, a twelve-year-old Galveston boy, knocked down 100 of 100 birds in the Sub-Junior championship for a new world's record. In the Junior division Robert Smith, 16, from Silver Spring, Md., hit 248 out of 250 for another world's record...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...
Emergencies are standard practice in Dr. Shultz's vast domain, which stretches 225 miles long, 150 miles wide, from 14.495-foot Mount Whitney (the U.S.'s highest) to sub-sea-level Death Valley...
...Gelck's sub-par performance in the broad jump enabled George Walker of Oxford to edge him with a jump of only 22 feet 7 inches. Oxford-Cambridge clinched the meet with an easy win by Chataway in the mile (4:15) and a one yard victory in the sprint relay. The Americans stared in disbelief at the 9-4 score as they quietly trooped off the field. "Somehow the whole meet just seemed like a bad dream," is the way one of the runners...
...been too much help. Their watches show a disparity of from three to five minutes. Even if they did want to help out the situation a little by dismissing a class by consulting their own time-pieces, they cannot fight temptation. Even the strongest minded lecturer succumbs before the sub-conscious impulse which grips him to avoid the impartial face of his watch and run on a little overtime. He will wade through a stirring peroration and seem relatively oblivious of everything, until suddenly he gropes around in his pocket and comes up with the observation that...