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...establish Committees to study and report on some particular topic. In the past these subjects of investigation have included Tenure, Tutorial, Educational Standards, and the like. Such committees have recently been extraordinarily active, for the impact of war on Harvard has made the problems in every field immensely more complex...
...Britons a-clamor for Continental action, Lord Louis personifies the second front. They know him as the chief of their savage specialists in hit-&-run invasion, the Commandos. Actually, he has a larger and more complex job: he is Chief of Combined Operations, directing not only the Commando troops themselves but the naval and air units which share the labor, glory and death of Commando raids...
Occupational Cancers, which are caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive...
...extremely complex subject of the most fateful urgency in probably the greatest crisis of world history has here been presented with color, with clarity and with concentrated power. In so craftsmanlike an achievement reporting transcends writing for a weekly publication. It truly reaches the level of history...
...unusual citation's remarkable last sentence: "His conduct of the operations of the Allied naval forces in the Southwest Pacific area during January and February, 1942, was characterized by unfailing judgment and sound decision, coupled with marked moral courage, in the face of discouraging surroundings and complex associations." To many people these large phrases said smaller, more definite things...