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...been boiled down to simple essentials, simple tools for killing. It has become a war of primitive fights, sometimes hand to hand, between a man and his enemy. Littered along the railroad tracks is much elaborate gear, for in this war you fight light or you don't fight long...
...minutes later the reluctant chief appeared in high gear. "Didn't you take their blood?" he asked. The doctors said they had. "But," said the chief, "they're still alive." The chief permitted all of his people to be blood-tested when he understood that not all their blood was to be taken...
...Chinese reports said that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking...
...same day that the President signed the rigid 'teen-age draft law, Harvard's Military Science Department, in a tradition-smashing move which is line with its high gear war-time policy, yesterday sent notification of acceptance to the advanced course to 75 members of the present Mil Sci 2 class...
...individual leanings in other linguistic fields. Today, when the value of German and French is no greater than that of Spanish or Russian from the diplomatic and military stand-point, the College should place equal emphasis on at least four major languages, if for no other reason, simply to gear its machinery in one more way to the demands of wartime education. Were the limits thus expanded, a student, upon failing to satisfy the requirement, would have twice as wide a choice; and for that minority wishing to concentrate in Russian or Spanish there would be no preliminary detours...