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...Small tug or trawler equipped with anti-aircraft guns. †Named after Captain Franklin Buchanan, founder of Annapolis and first U. S. Naval officer of Commodore Perry's expedition to set foot on Japanese soil...
...letter listed as safely stocked: American Chicle, Canada Dry, Coca Cola, Nehi Corporation, Pepsi Cola, and William Wrigley. Of course the patriotic press can scarcely afford to offend these heavy advertisers. Many of them also have close connections with Washington. Coca Cola, for example, can give a tremendous tug to the purse-strings of many southern representatives. Besides using sugar in its extract formula, the concoctors of this drink add four more teaspoonfuls to each bottle. Naturally Coca Cola Corporations has felt it wise to be prepared for the emergency. And the other soft drink companies have followed suit...
...guise of a series of historical novels, Novelist Lion Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old issues-the Jewish problem. The nub of this problem is the never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume...
...following clipping from the Yale News shows the possible stand that Yale will take in regard to tug-of-war contests at the intercollegiate games: Tug-of-war team-The candidates for the University tug-of-war team will commence active training next Monday under the charge of Britton, P.G. and all men wishing to try for positions on the team must hand their names to Mr. Dole, immediately...
There was the U-156. On a Sabbath morning in July 1918, she popped up opposite Provincetown, Mass., stayed 90 minutes, fired 147 rounds, sank a tug and three barges. Hundreds of appreciative bathers, tourists and thrill-seekers lined the shore watching the engagement like a crowd at a baseball game...