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...facilitate free movement of the officers of the University during times of blackout or air raid. Official Identity Cards have been made available for them it was announced this week. These cards will give the bearer the right to move at will during a blackout...
...human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon...
...Harvard. I am afraid I shall have to avoid these, for though my patriotism is undimmed, it will be impossible for me to exert myself in my present condition. This condition is, of course, due to the sparsity of food, in particular to the lack of the great calcium bearer, milk...
Other recent additions to the language, from the Washington scene: The "Milk Route" is the daily round of visits a businessman makes trying to get a defense order, to 0PM, SPAB, OPA, ODT, War, Navy, Treasury and Agriculture Departments. A "Torch Bearer" is a sympathetic Government subordinate who actually takes up a case and follows it through...
Seventy-five House Republicans sat insilence as one of their colleagues disavowed Willkie "as a leader of Republican thought." None rose to defend the 1940 G.O.P. standard bearer, who was branded "the No. 1 warmonger of America" by Rep. William P. Lamberison, R., Kans...