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...victories over the Japanese, its role is primarily defensive. Its first victories may or may not come quickly. But until it can drive the Japanese out of the waters between Honolulu and the mainland, until it can recover the lifeline islands and secure them from further attack, it cannot exert its full force against the Japanese...
...Harvard Liberal Union, voiced the backing of his group. Ames said, "I feel sure that the Liberal Union will fully support the declaration of war against Japan. I am glad to see that our long-standing policy of appeasement to Japan has been junked. We must now exert all our efforts to winning the war, and to winning the peace after...
Harvard's other stellar injury victim, Loren Mackinney, did not exert himself beyond a little light work, but he will be ready for Princeton Saturday without doubt, according to Dr. Augustus Thorndike...
...Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...
...against strikes, according to Slichter is to give both laborers and employers a vivid picture of the seriousness of their emergency work. Graphic monthly charts showing the race of industrial production between Germany and America would give the American laborer a more tangible feeling of competition, inspiring him to exert his fullest effort to out do his totalitarian opponent...