Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the sensation of a submarine which has just had a depth charge dropped off its port bow. "Indignant, nay Apoplectic '45" (see "The Mail" in last Tuesday's issue) has exposed me as being in the pay of the Yale News. (I wonder who read the SERVICE NEWS to my little correspondent, anyway...
...just a little dazed by the good luck, or mere luck, which befell us in the Disbursing Course. Many feel that they slipped quite a way down in the final and others wonder how they can possibly have passed. The final grades, including as they did the results of two closed book "pop" quizzes, were all but impossible to ascertain in advance...
...morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages...
...that the Baker annual is all locked up and gone to press and should be out by the second week in September (sooner if the presses and bailing wire holds out) we wonder what adventures will befall our li'l James Farrell this month? It could be that Fearless Farrell might take to tracking down Mrs. Pruneface...
John Hessler is back this month with the baton in Section A and is doing nicely with his demodulation of lookout groups, radio conference, groups and 111-A subscribers. It isn't any wonder that one platoon found themselves in the Subway headed for the Fargo Building before they realized that he said, "lookconferencehead group...