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...soldier has with him 30 little Army manuals and four sets of 25 phonograph records. These are a presentation on paper and wax of the Army's top-flight Chinese-teaching team: Charles Francis Hockett, ex-University of Michigan teacher, and Fang Chaoying, ex-Library of Congress aide. The story of their experiences suggests that the soldier's strange job may make sense in any language...
Administrator, to handle the unloading of the umpteen-billions-worth of ships, shoes and sealing wax - and the plants that make them - which the Government will...
...Mission to Moscow" a supremely unimaginative and literal rendering of the book, should have been relased a year sooner. As it is, we all knew that Russia was fighting the Germans and the wax-museum figures of "Mission to Moscow" lost any interest that they might ever have had. "The North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem...
...Once again I rearranged the teeth in wax and made my patient play. I soon discovered that the tip of the tongue had too much room between the occlusion of the front upper and lower. . . . To correct this condition, I reset the front teeth several times. . . . For the final test he tried the famous William Tell duet full of staccatos and he passed with colors flying...
Experiments with special wax sprays occupied part of the time of the botanists, but their attention was soon turned to the more practical question of how long the foliage would stand up under battle conditions. Research parties were sent to Florida and to the Army Engineers Headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to help compile the facts on camouflage to be used in the tropical and north temperate zones, respectively...