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...numbered 174,884 officers and men. Their training presented a constant problem. General Pershing believed that the War could be won only by driving the enemy out of the trenches and engaging him in open warfare. He believed also that the French had acquired a "defensive complex" and, wedded to trench warfare, lacked the ability to teach the kind of open combat he wanted the A. E. F. to have. Therefore he resisted French instruction methods, insisted that all U. S. troops be drilled for cross-country fighting...
...frankness of youth. If the boy of to-day at the age of nineteen or twenty is not competent to settle his own football schedule, by what stretch of imagination is it to be presumed that he will be able, a year later, to take his part in the complex mechanism of modern business...
...Jackson named them, for other saccharifiers to recognize, d-fructose 1, 2, and 3. Although inulin-derived fruit sugar suitable for household and factory use will soon be sold as cheaply as grape (corn sugar is the same) or cane sugar (a more complex sugar), fruit sugar purified for laboratory research costs $27.22 a pound. Dr. Jackson's three new sugars are not for sale. To produce the small quantities he has, cost at the rate of $50,000 a pound. Laboratory inulin costs $90 a pound. Its natural sources are dandelions, dahlias, goldenrod and. above all, the Jerusalem...
Most U. S. school children would probably find the Brecht-Weill opus perplexing. The pattern is complex: Lindbergh's Flight is a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Lindbergh, represented by a tenor, describes himself, his preparations, his emotions during the flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep...
...complex, hastily expanded phenomenon, Radio has impinged upon Education quite as powerfully but even more crudely than upon the worlds of Music, Politics, Advertising, Theatre, Sport, Religion. A few of its developments have been definitely educational; others, frankly commercial, have had cultural aspirations (President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co. announced last year in his annual report that Pepsodent Toothpaste's Amos 'n Andy "are working in a new art form...