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...this country can be disinterested in the effect on our future of a defeat for Great Britain. . . . Aid-the most effective aid that the U. S. can render without impairing our own necessary defense-may be unpopular at the moment because men and women do not understand the dire necessity. But if they were told, sir, their support and their conviction would be immediate in response...
Close on the heels of Tuesday night's fracas in which seven students were arrested by Cambridge police, a statement was issued by Dean Hanford yesterday sharply warning undergraduates of the dire consequences of participating in "public disturbances" and threatening the severance of a student's connections with the University...
...made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
...millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
...about jitterbugging in general. A great many people say that it is unsightly. We agree that very often jitterbugs don't look too aesthetic in their dancing. But this is usually because they aren't dancing well--because they are dancing stiffly--and therefore get out of time with dire results to their steps. Good dancing of this type, done well, is as (or more) attractive than a great deal of the ballroom dancing today. If you don't think this is true, watch some good colored dancers when they aren't showing off. To the charge that jitterbugging...