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...celebration, 1779: "Gen. 1 Poor made an Entertainment ... 87 Gentleman ware present at dinner, after which the 13 following Patriotick toasts ware drank, 1 t 4th of July 76, the ever Memoriable Eara of American Independence 2 d the United States 3 d the Grand Counsel of America 4 th Gen. 1 Washington & the Army 5 th The King & Queen of France 6 th Gen. 1 Lincoln & the Southern Army 7 th Gen. 1 Sullivan & the Western Army 8 th May the Counsellors of America be wise, & her Soldiers Invincible 9 th A Successful & decisive Campaign 10 th Civilization...
...countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...
...Temple 0 Boston College 12 Detroit 7 Cincinnati 14 Boston University 6 Cornell 14 Colgate 0 Tennessee 33 Citadel 0 Northwestern 13 Purdue 7 Carnegie Tech 7 Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 14 Michigan 13 Ohio State 51 Chicago 0 U.S.C. 14 Stanford 0 Texas Aggies 14 South'n M'th'dist 10 Illinois 7 Wisconsin 0 Pennsylvania 20 Penn State 0 North Carolina 26 Davidson 7 Notre Dame 14 Iowa 13 Kontucky 14 Georgla Tech 7 Missouri 19 N.Y.U. 7 Navy 6 Columbia 0 Total Averages Games 72 Right 50 Wrong 17 Ties 5 Percentage...
...Starlings also have a nondescript call of their own. "The greater part of it," says Ornithologist Aretas A. Saunders, "is sibilant, fricative [sounds of zh, sh, th], or harsh and rattling, but here and there the bird intersperses loud, clear, slurred whistles, most of them slurred downward. . . . The young, when gathering in their first flocks in June and committing depredations in cherry trees, make a loud grating or hissing noise...
...Hitler but from Ribbentrop. When Sir Nevile Henderson said that Great Britain was advising Poland to avoid provocative action, "von Ribbentrop replied that His Majesty's Government's advice had had cursed (verflucht) little effect. I mildly retorted that I was surprised to hear such language from th Minister for Foreign Affairs." Ribbentrop "read out in German aloud at top speed" a series of demands on Poland a then refused to let Sir Nevile see the text. "Herr von Ribbentrop's whole demeanor during our unpleasant interview was apin Herr Hitler at his worst...