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...most exciting contribution in hidden away on a back page: War comes to North America--A Communication from Canada. This harrowing, yet dispassionate outline of the impact of war on the universities of Canada paints an ugly picture. No Harvard student could read it without a chill of horror, for it shows all too clearly the intellectual regimentation of wartime...
...cotton; plowing for the next crop has not yet begun. Men and boys old enough to be out of school have plenty of time to "go to the store" or into town, and not much to do when they get there. Even in the southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black, of cheese, sardines, tobacco juice, tobacco smoke, Garrett's snuff. A man can always find company...
...Fronts? Thus Europe's chill winds seemed to blow war nearer on three fronts. The Balkans appeared, in spite of their fright, to have some guarantee of peace in Germany's desire to keep Rumania at peace and Russia's preoccupation in the north. In fact, the crisis on the three fronts interlocked, for if the war in the north is kept limited, Russia may feel free to attack the Balkans. In reverse, if Norway and Sweden are drawn into war with Russia, thereby cutting off Germany's much-needed supplies, Germany might feel forced...
...Chill winds and a new fear swept across Europe last week. Ice spread in the Gulf of Bothnia like ink across a blotter. Along the Westwall it was too cold to fight hard. Dirty ice formed on the Danube, and Rome shivered under sharp blasts from the Apennines...
Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...