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...trained specialists to reorganize the ruined oil and rubber industries of the Spice Islands. But even if this is true, it is being extremely unrealistic to sit back and say that all we have to do is establish a blockade of the South China Sea and Japan will automatically fold up in short order. Besides the fact that we do not know how long this "short order" will be, it is going to be extremely difficult, once Singapore is lost, to establish such a blockade...
Coach Stahl has not much basis for getting too optimistic about this year's squad even though he has a host of yeterans returning to the fold. The Sophomore Class, which has an average crop of ball players, unfortunately will not add very much to the general picture. Its only real stars are Warren Berg and Ned Fitzgibbons...
...cheering note of optimism pervaded Soldiers Field after Saturday's informal no-time, no score affair with Northeastern at Briggs Cage, for Charlie Eberhart, long-lost Sophomore quarter-miler returned to the fold from the University of Kansas, and the better than-average performance of several members of the team bolstered the morale of the aggregation...
...they'll become peace loving and democratic, we're in for a shock. You don't go fight an all out war, get defeated, and cheerfully say, "Oh, yes, we were wrong." Take Germany for example. It's not going to be any easier bringing her back into the fold this time than it was in 1919 an if we start off on the principle that we just cast her loose we'll end up where we are now again. To fit Germany into the pattern of the future requires both a complete internal reeducation and an external policy...
...weight, particularly if they are prosperous (in China, with its frequent famines, being fat is esteemed as a sign of being a solid citizen). > Chinese, not as hairy as Japanese, seldom grow an impressive mustache. > Most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical epicanthic fold of the upper eyelid (which makes them look almond-eyed), Japanese eyes are usually set closer together. > Those who know them best often rely on facial expression to tell them apart : the Chinese expression is likely to be more placid, kindly, open; the Japanese more positive, dogmatic, arrogant...