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...minutes before 9 o'clock. Manager Bob Whitman is the last man into the Varsity Club. A few minutes after the hour. Vernon Struck is the first man out. Frank Ryan, Stan Deland, Manager Ollie Bolton and Shippen Goodhue appear. The doors open and 36 players swarm out, suitcases in hand...
...that of the Congressional Library or New York's Public Library. Alumni and visitors are awed by its murals, marble, and majesty, by its steps and circumference, its showcases and treasures. But, except at reading and examination periods, they may well wonder at the scarcity of students amid the swarm of employees and professors...
...young Chinese airmen, each piloting a U. S.-built Curtiss-Hawk, whirred up and away into the northwest to meet the invaders. Just as the Chinese disappeared, the first Japanese air squadron came over from the opposite direction, the southeast, flying two miles up, a faintly buzzing swarm of about 40 grey ships in a dazzling blue sky. Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital opened up, and reserve Chinese pursuit fighters took the air, climbing to tear like clawing condors...
Once a year half-a-million goose stepping Germans swarm into Nürnberg, "the most German of all German cities," join with another half-million gaping visitors for the greatest political circus in the world, the seven-day Nazi Party Congress. Days before the Congress opened last week, 550 special trains, seething with black, brown, green-shirted Storm Troopers, Special Guards, Labor Corps, Hitler Youth were pouring into the railway stations, disgorging their loads in the allotted ten minutes time. Shouldering their packs, the military and semimilitary corps clumped away to their temporary homes in 13 miniature tent cities...
...Coryells is that there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra...