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Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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avis was again the lead. Womanlike, she fell—probably to wreck the race—and then there was a tumblingpile of femininity and a few sights! After the wreck wascleared, the race was on again, with Miss Marian Long footingit like a streak of lightning straight into the arms of the judges.No one ever ran so swiftly to arms before. Time: O : O (?)Prize: Q. M. C. Pin (2) 100-Yard Race Scratch for Men. This was just as sightly (or unsightly!) as the girls race,for there happen to be lean and lanky as well as stout andstubby men in this Division, and all entered. Each put hisrear foot on the line, with the other at a distance in frontlimited only by the curb of his physical makeup. Some timehaving elapsed since many of the runners had indulged in thisstrenuous sport, and the grace of youth having in the meantimebeen enwrapped in layers of avoirdupois, those in the sidelinesenjoyed a rare treat. The runners were of all classes fromthe slow tortoise to the fleet-footed greyhound type. One of
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Clip-counting contest. No adding machinesallowed Then the band played at the end of aperfect day Social Events 151 the latter, Lyman Barry, from Contract and Purchase, won therace and the Five-Dollar War Saving Stamp. (3) Tug-of-War for Men. Officers vs. Civilians and EnlistedMen. Ten Men to a Side. After lubricating his hands in the approved manner, eachcontestant grasped the rope. This rope, by the way, was ofgigantic proportions and must have been the kind whichJames Wilson 3d bought to pull rolling kitchens up KemmelHill. The view of the spectators was obscured by clouds ofdust raised by the flounderings of the pullers. Private Fuller,captain of the Civilians and Enlisted Mens Team, shouted,Pull for the shore, boys! But there was no shore, forLieutenant Farnemans stalwart officers, reminding one of ahuge centipede sprawling on the ground, won. (4) Tug-of-War for Ladies. Administration, Contract andPurchase, and Inspection Branches, Miss Tonette Benson,Captain, vs. Procurement Bran

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