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...year in his new post, where he will have a major voice in the spending of Empire billions for armament (see p 25). A good coordinator would equalize the amount of "drag" or "pull" possessed by each of the three fighting services and traditionally used to warp Government decisions in favor of that service. The British Admiralty naturally has always been strongest in these contests, the Royal Air Force has shot up recently to second place in "drag" and the Army makes a poor third in looking out for itself. In the services most of Sir Thomas' friends...
...rhythm reinforced and given a high tragic emphasis by the force and poignant vigor of McLaglen's acting. The gloom of the foggy night with its almost animate compulsion of remorse and terror and repentance and the tale of revolutionary passion in the furtive Republican Army provide a grim warp along which the fate of the informer is woven with almost classical measuredness and tragic purpose. It is unfortunate that the construction is not a little more closely knit. The reason for his deed--the salvation from the streets of a woman he loved--and the horror of his remorse...
...front of their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village. I think he was a fence for stolen goods. . . . Sometimes I dye them myself and sometimes I take already dyed wools and re-dye them. I have...
...regulate the morals of less puritanical Cantabridgians. Since they have demonstrated that they intend to leave no stone unturned to keep the collective Cambridge Mind free from hampering vulgarity, whether it will or no, it is only fitting that new menaces, insidiously working their way into the very warp and woof of Cambridge life, which, in their manifold duties they have probably overlooked, be pointed out to them...
Once safely launched, tugs would warp the liner into her fitting basin where work on the superstructure should be completed by 1936. In the spring of that year she will take her place upon the sea as the greatest ship ever to fly the British flag...