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...government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck...
Attempt to Avoid Repitition
...this concentration of colleges on military training rather than college work which Harvard is attempting to avoid in this crisis. It is aided by the set-up of the army, which is far advanced over the situation which faced the country in the last...
...CNAC planes have so far been shot down by the Japanese. To avoid such accidents, CNAC's American pilots and Chinese co-pilots fly mostly at night (bad weather preferred), blacked out, radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...wring your hands. > Don't put pencils in your hair. > Don't wear clanking bracelets. > Don't talk baby talk. > Don't wear long fingernails. But tint your nails (to avoid being different) unless the superintendent or community objects...