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...younger brother to American Defense, the Student Defense League, takes virtually the same stand as the senior group. Immediate passage of the Lend-Lease bill "with those amendments which the House of Representatives has approved" was urged to avoid the mistakes of the past, when "help came always too late and too little...
...nothing worth dying for. ... I would trade democracy for life. I would trade independence and honor and freedom and decency for life. . . ." Unlike Survivors Hemingway, Cummings, Remarque, Graves, etc., anti-war Novelist Trumbo saw nothing of World War I. The Remarkable Andrew is a further effort to avoid seeing anything of World...
...carefully obeyed his own admonition. As a private citizen he has taken a forthright and controversial stand on the great question of the day; he has used his personal prestige to prepare this country for war. But he has been very careful as President of Harvard to avoid any steps that might look like suppression of free speech; in an atmosphere of extremist views this is a commendable achievement by one who holds perhaps the most extreme of all. His sense of responsibility is further attested by is recent speech before the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, in which he said...
...treating milder allergies, the first step is to find out what a patient is allergic to, by means of skin tests which result in small reactions to the offending substance. If it is a food or something similar, all the patient has to do is avoid it. If it is a wind-borne pollen that cannot be escaped, the patient may try "desensitization" treatment, which involves injecting very small quantities of the allergenic protein. How or why desensitization works is unknown. The benefits of desensitization are temporary and partial, though the degree of relief may seem wonderful to a sufferer...
...might imagine a man driving on the wrong side of the road. Now, this he might do for an hour or so without having an accident if there were no other traffic on the road; it is only when he encounters some other vehicle--some "obstacle"--which he cannot avoid hitting that an accident, the fourth step in the series, occurs. The fifth factor may be called the "momentum" or "force" involved, upon which depends the extent of the injury. This same order of factors applies to all sorts of accidents...