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...over half of the first period, Harvard seemed almost asleep on the court as its offensive drive ran in neutral gear. Little effort was made to work the ball in or to follow up shots off the opponents' backboard...
While Colonel Beukema's program was getting under way, another Army educational venture went into high gear on a smaller front. To a series of three-times-a-week classes planned by hard-boiled Lieut. General Ben Lear and soft-spoken Major Robert Allen Griffin (TIME, Nov. 24) went the 125,000 officers and men of the Second Army. The Lear-Griffin outline of their program...
Attempting to gear their schedules to meet the new accelerated 12-month program, the Military and Naval Science Departments will enable students to take the final two courses of their training programs simultaneously, the Faculty's guide to war courses reveals...
...Prince of Wales was attacked by a swarm of torpedo bombers. She was hit astern, her propellers and steering gear knocked out. This was exactly the kind of blow by which the British themselves had crippled the Bismarck...
...essential that our procurement be put into the highest gear at once . . . employes must make their maximum effort regardless of the long hours of hardship endured . . . production must be put on a 24-hour-a-day basis.-Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson...