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...recruit walks into a room, the manner in which he answers these questions, may be as important as the things he says. If he seems dull, he is given a few problems from an intelligence test, must attain ten-year-old standards...
Rapid mobilization of the nation's complete manpower is the only way to attain a quick victory. "Every year that victory eludes us multiplies by many fold the dangers to our civilization. Beyond some date, if war continues, lies defeat for this century's hopes for human freedom...
...lethargy, it took the English two and a half years to obtain real concerted action. Because the war is still so far away in the minds of many Americans, he continued, the spirit necessary to obtain all-out civilion effort will probably require an even longer period to attain in this country...
...members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...
...Studio 8-H in Radio City was designed by engineers and cursed by music-lovers. Built to stifle reverberation, it was acoustically satisfactory for variety shows, bad for symphony concerts. (The best auditoriums allow tones to bound about and scatter until they attain depth, warmth.) Toscanini accepted 8-H uncomplainingly, but admitted it was "too sec." Musicritics complained about the studio's woolliness. Last fall, when Leopold Stokowski took over the NBC Symphony, he balked at playing in Studio 8-H, induced NBC to accept an inconvenient, expensive substitute: moving the orchestra to Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Opera House...