We have been on the verge of decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use up here in Soviet Canuckistan for the past couple of years, but have yet to do so.

The bureau's researches in the war involving electrical principles covered many subjects—the location of enemy batteries by means of sound-recording mechanisms, the electrical control of airplane guns to fire between the propeller blades, time studies of gunfiring, variation of gun pressures, ejection-velocity studies by recoil meters, the development of kinemometers to measure the jumps and whip of a gun on firing, the measurement of projectile velocities inside the gun, and scientific studies of the gun blast.

Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.

The last of these workmen of the road to quit their rounds were the chair reseaters, commonly called chair bottomers, and clock repairmen.