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Moslem-Hindu religious and social differences top the list of hindrances to Indian independence from British rule. Probably the most frequent and most telling answer Great Britain gives to demands for immediate dominion status is: "Once freed, India would destroy itself in civil war." The rift divides India as permanently as the Mississippi divides...
...last few years the Council has grown from a tiny and neglected group into a large and flourishing organization, with a highly successful record of debates with other colleges, over the radio, and among the Houses. To deprive the Council of funds at this point would mean to destroy it at the very moment when it had finally proved workable and useful. Yesterday's forum on presidential possibilities was only an example of the consistently interesting meetings being sponsored by the Council...
Droning noises may not only destroy the auditory nerve, but also reduce the flow of saliva and gastric juices. Noise, fear, and changing atmospheric pressure (lowered pressure expands intestinal gases, may cause violent cramps) all add up to a second major occupational disease of fliers: "gastric disturbances...
...breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy...
...past. "In the old days," he told a disciple in 1935, "pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture-then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else...