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...local newscaster took a swipe at the outing and the revellers, suggesting that instead of water pistols (a traditional Derby Day feature), the students should be given rifles to "join the kids out there in Korea who never had a chance to learn all the things they teach in college...
With a hefty swipe of a stainless steel shovel, President Benjamin F. Fairless started work last week on U.S. Steel Corp.'s new $400 million plant near Morris ville, Pa. The "Fairless Works" will pour 1,800,000 tons of steel a year, add about 5% to Big Steel's capacity. But the Morrisville plant was just the start of a rush; Jones & Laughlin, Armco Steel and Bethlehem were also hustling to multiply their capacity, along with a swarm of hastily formed new steel companies...
Nine years later, the Yale administration tech another swipe at unrestrained student leadership and abolished the position of class leader. Each Yale class had usually elected its finest specimen as Class Bully. His official duty, for which he was equipped with a fine ebony mace, was to lead his class when, they warred with New Haven townies. The 1839 Class Bully was a game gent who, as a gag, led his class in a town and gown riot on commencement day just as the procession of the president and dignitaries started. The president tried to squelch the riot, but failed...
...names and addresses of friends and acquaintances in their areas who might like to subscribe to TIME. To date, we have received hundreds of names from them. Said a subscriber in Belize, British Honduras: "The first two names on the enclosed list are of people who usually swipe my copy of TIME before I have half read it. I would therefore be very happy to see them have their own." And a Ricran, Peru reader wrote: "Since my first reading of TIME in 1929 I have missed very few issues. To a great many people of my generation, TIME...
Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...