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...face of one of Washington's more general disorders, the Deans' Office went to work. Out of chaos they brought a plan, fallible to be sure, but by comparison almost rock-like. It became their outspoken policy to advise men to stay at Harvard and complete as much of the four years as they were able, and their official rulings have been uniformly consistent with this policy...
...recent stage production, "The Eternal Road", he made use of another gigantic cathedral, which made that of "The Miracle" seem like a chapel by comparison...
...reference to the article on Chile in TIME, Nov. 2, there is an error in the comparison of infant-mortality rates in Chile and the U.S. TIME states "In 1939 Chile had the highest infant mortality rate in the world (250 per 1,000 live births), a death rate twice that of the U.S." The U.S. infant mortality rate for 1939 was 48 (48 infants died under one year of age for every 1,000 live births). The infant mortality rate reported for Chile in 1939 was 225-almost five times as high as the rate...
...generally muddled and confused gridiron situation detracts from the value of a comparison of the Crimson and Eli records against mutual rivals, but, for whatever it may indicate: Yale played a better (and a winning) game against Dartmouth and, on the other hand, Harvard was better against Penn. Both were a touchdown ahead of Princeton, but the Blue was superior against Brown, which might be explained by Margarita's inability to play against-Yale...
Despite the Commission's attempt to justify sky-high government subsidies to private ship concerns through comparison with costs in Axis-run Denmark and Italy, the figures of Comptroller General Warren on two recent shipbuilding deals reveal a loose-handed economy that can contribute little to the war effort. Using as his target reports submitted by Warren, Aiken charged that the Commission sold seven partially built ships to the Navy at two million dollars over their contract price in order to save a failing Florida concern. To this were added accusations that the Commission is issuing unwarranted subsidies, as well...