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...allowed to volunteer at the start, or had been drafted, the shortage today would be very serious indeed. One wonders whether we in the United States will be far-sighted enough to profit by the example. The question touches both our national defense and the continuation in time of dire emergency of our centers of advanced teaching and research...
...Somaliland in the south. Italian resistance in Marda Pass before Harar was surprisingly light, and the British met almost no resistance at Harar itself. This column's mission-breaking the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad-was accomplished at week's end when the British announced they had occupied Dire Dawa, the nearest station to Harar on the railway, and that the Italians had withdrawn westward toward the capital. Main reason given by the Italians for this withdrawal was again British air activity. All week long and all along the railroad, the British bombed trains, supply depots, bridges, tracks. With...
Else what, huh? Well, the old 12-gauge pump still shoots pretty good, and you ain't so far from here if one sets forth with dire purpose...
Because of the dire financial straits of the H.A.A., the proposed trip would in no way be subsidized by the athletic office. The expenses of the excursion, which would amount to approximately $2000, must be completely covered by flat money guarantees before the Crimson hoopers leave Cambridge...
...difficult to say enough about "Cabin in the Sky." And whatever you say, you can't recapture in words the magic of appeal, the imaginative realism of its political journeys to the evangelist's dire threat of Hell and glowing promise of the Pearly Gates. It may be that it has succeeded in finding the spirit of the Negro more truly than ever before; if it is has at all fallen short of this ideal, it suffers none as pure entertainment. It's worth pawing your roommate's dress clothes and flunking an hour exam to see "Cabin...