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...undertaken by the so far inactive War Man Power Commission or some new organization is a matter of administration, but somebody must be given the power to readjust the college quotas to the relative needs of each of the armed services. Instead of fighting neck and neck to drag men away from each other, the Army and Navy should, together with the Selective Service Board, assess the total college manpower and set up their quotas so as to use it most efficiently...
...left of the whale-oil market. But there were still fish. Most Provincetown fishermen began to fish off the dangerous ledges of George's Banks, "a terrifying piece of water, so treacherous that for many years no one fished there. . . . Let a blow come up and a vessel drag its anchor and come into collision with an other and there is no record of the crew of either one surviving...
...already considered the best shortstop in the American League. Jack-rabbit-quick and strong of arm, he has practically remade the Red Sox infield. With Second Baseman Bobby Doerr, he chalked up 27 double plays in his first 20 games. Pesky can hit, too. A batter who can drag, punch or pull the ball equally well, he has averaged .325 so far this season-only one point under the batting of his terrific teammate, Ted Williams...
...destruction of Cologne was not a reprisal. Cologne was a military objective. The New Republic spoke for many when it said: "Certainly we should carefully balance the arguments on both sides, before embarking on a course that would in any way stain our record in the war or drag us down toward the Nazi level...
...Castroviejo at week's end examined Ortiz' eye, but remained prudently mum. Those sectors of the Argentine press which are desperately anxious to drag Argentina into the war hailed the doctor as a "mir-acle man." Finally the honest surgeon cried: "I'd like to get a change of scene, hide out in a nightclub somewhere, but even that's impossible here...