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Of depot disturbances.
Squeals about that 21 lb. of generic "meat!'.
That some agents will want some persuading.
That the best-dressed advertisement is like the man.
Of all sorts of post-war threats of chassis improvement.
That the "electric " should still be given every chance.
That many so-called inferences are merely inaccurate deductions.
That it's a rare thing to come by. a bit of really dry timber nowadays.
That " Coke's case " is now much better than when It was first stated.
Tat a lot more things and people are Swiss nowadays than used to be.
"Oh for another 200 destroyers--from Japan, the U.S.A., or anywhere."
That if the men at the Front do not get many meatless days all their days there are wifeless.
That it would be hard to make taxation of some petrol substitutes pay the cost of collection.
That the native population in occupied regions is often " receiverg" of Army goods on a considerable scale.
That a new national use is to be found for many of the bigger cars already or yet to be laid up by their owners.
That the Allies' version of enough for Germany does not coincide with the Germans' idea of when to cry ". enough."
That Ford must have meant Arks, and paper ones at that, when he talked of turning out tiny submarines at 1,000 a day.
Of an outbreak of official bad mermen on the Underground, and that its boy and girl staff is getting quite a name in that direction.
That much 'surprise is expressed by the National Union of Doll's-eye Makers that their occupation is to be classified as non-essential.
That if the Channel Tunnel comes, as it most certainly will, the classes of traffic to be permitted to use it will be entirely mechanical. and limited in type at that.
• TilA it Wouldn't be half a had plan to comb out the' Army, for National Service purposes, and to insiSt that two men were not used for many jobs where one would do quite well. . But. has to keep silence too often.
That fighting grim remains the king.
There is a dawn before every daylight.
That the value of a name cannot be weighed.
"Underground A's at or under 5s. Cod. are ground floors."
That intuition does not always compensate for no tuition. 0 " " Whoso draweth the sword shall also perish by the sword."
That strength of wings counts on the road as well as in the air.
That it's a bitter change from plunder to self preservation. .
That the illustrated advertisement both arrests and rests the eye. 0 That no man is quit of what he writes because it has quitted his pen.
That not a few double half-timer's have broken down under over-doing it.
That Germany's all-wanted gains will from henceforth blench as unwanted losses.
That most winter dodges and fittings should be boomed each November and December.
That what is conveyed is even more important in: speaking or writing than what was intended.
Of eight tires on some big Spencer-Moultoned steam wagons, three being on each driving wheel.
That Nottingham is not yet full up with new facs tories, but that the best sites are rapidly failing bY filling. _ That if there's anything a nser wants missing from the "Useful Names for Users' the 'Manager wants to know what it is. , That merchant -captains are at last paying more' heed to Admiralty.instructions than to the up-to-time wishes of their owners.
Of a very definite rapidly-growing a,version to the professional-efficiency merchant in the U.S.A., encl. that it is more useful to ensure that the edge of a, chisel is sharp than to study the movements of the hand that is holding it.
Nursery Rhymes for Present Times.--No. 5.
There was an old Woman who lived in a Shoe, _ She'd so Many Children she didn't know. what to do ;: For they'd learnt Safety First, that's the,reason, . .
All of them always came home ,to their _ We cannot all be wise, but we eon all be careful.