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...world federation is "still far off," and feels that "this is perhaps just as well. . . . Diplomacy would become lobbying and log rolling, and international wars would be come civil wars and insurrections, but man would continue to fight for what he thought worth-while and violence would not disappear from the earth." But his main objection to theories for the future is that "they provide very little guidance for the practical problems which will face the United States on the day of the armistice." On that day, he says, "there will be neither world state nor hegemony but many large...
...fantastic scenery designed by John A. Helabird '42 went through a quick change of face when the stage crew made Solomon's palace disappear in three seconds without closing the curtains...
...cumulative effect of a diet of corrupting melodrama could not fail to product an 'anxiety state.' Even those patients who were cautioned of the baleful effects of listening to these serials found it harder to resist. . . . The hairline that divides the normal from the neurotic . . . can disappear from such influence as the unwitting sadism of suppurating serials...
...autumn afternoon Columbus' crews saw the last of the Canary Islands disappear. "By nightfall . . . the three ships had an uncharted ocean to themselves." How did Columbus know where he was on that sea? "The Admiral liked to pose as an expert in celestial navigation. . . . Yet the testimony of his own journals proves that the simple method of finding latitude from a meridional observation of the sun . . . was unknown to Columbus." He was unable to use the newly invented astrolabe, and probably had none aboard. The common quadrant was his only instrument of celestial navigation. Mostly he sailed by dead...
...news from Singapore could not be much worse. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent the Japanese from capturing this "practically impregnable" fortress in a very few days, perhaps even hours. When Singapore falls, the last hope of a relatively short war against Japan will disappear, and America will have to climb down out of its cloud of wishful thinking and face the hard, cruel facts of a hard, cruel...