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...among unaccustomed delights. For many more it was plain tragedy; starvation was an ever-present possibility. The bank clerk, fingering his last western suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China soon lost all sense of normal value. It is no novelty...
...Navy reiterated its demand for 96 class days a term, however, and the college finally decided to abandon all one-day holidays in the face of possible reductions of between term or Christmas vacations. Tests will be scheduled for Washington's Birthday, while classes will be held on Patriot's Day and the Fourth of July...
...idled in the darkness, not sure where the other ships were. A red blinker flashed in the night; it was the LCI calling for aid. Skipper Berlin ran his ship alongside. After a hasty conference the LCI's skipper ordered "abandon ship" and men poured over the side onto the Who, Me?'s flat wooden deck...
...player [Commissioner Parker] was terrible." Then he went on to Elgin, Ill. for a big farewell. It was at Elgin that Parker, then a 16-year-old printer on the Elgin Daily News, first attended a Salvation Army open-air meeting, was so taken by the Salvationists' happy abandon that he joined up then & there...
...Portuguese Legion issued a communique stating that the nation might abandon neutrality "if dignity and the national interest require...