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Another time Sam watched Black Cawper, the local strong man, fight an almost Icelandic battle on the moor, from dusk to dawn, with a supernatural blond giant. When Black lost, he said: "Ba gum, Ah'd like to tak' thee hoam and hev a pup off'n thee!" Black's son Ian was the first blond Cawper in generations...
...British troops were slowly pressed by Japanese forces, CNAC established an emergency service from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the lee of the Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...
...usual schedule had been adhered to, many students would have been forced to return for only one or two classes on Friday or Saturday. Since most of the advanced courses to not meet during the Reading Period, there would have been a temptation for a good many students to tak the extra few days anyway. Also, under the original schedule, it would have been necessary to grant travel time very liberally to men living at a distance. In extending the vacation, the Faculty voted that travel time should not ordinarily be granted. The only exceptions will be in the case...
...night I tak' my haxe And go for hund de skunk, Polecat...
...have done me, but I left it on my study table and my dog ate it." When the mirth of the Immortals had subsided, General Weygand spoke a few words on the spur of the moment. As academy tradition demanded, he eulogized the late Immortal whose seat he was tak ing, Marshal Joffre. Paradoxically General Weygand was wearing when he took this seat the Academic regalia of Marshal Foch, enemy of Joffre, patron of Weygand. Strutting out after the ceremony in his laced & looped jacket, General Weygand clapped on the plumed hat that went with it, was jocularly congratulated...