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...though no one told them, that Singapore fell without honor. Embattled upon an island thousands of miles from the battlefronts, forty million people felt profoundly unheroic. And only a year ago these same people-soldiers, tradesmen and housewives-had written into the history of a glorious empire its most heroic chapter...
Most of the big dinosaurs will have to risk staying in Washington; so will many another object. It would be too heroic a task to bottle, bundle, crate and ship even a large fraction of the Smithsonian's 1,000,000 fish, its 1,750,000 plants, its 510,000 historical relics. (Only 5% of this material is displayed for the museum's 2,500,000 yearly visitors.) A Smithsonian zoologist last week estimated that the alcohol required to preserve the chosen animals for the duration would be enough to provide the entire Japanese army with...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight ordered the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Gen. Douglas MacArthur for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" for his heroic defense of the Phillippines...
...they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort of mirror maze in which truth and half-truth interreflect...
...especially when it catches fire. There were stones last week of intolerable exposure, of hunger and thirst in lifeboats, of burned, screaming men, of heroic attempts to save crazed, suffering men from leaping to their death. When two tankers were attacked and burned off New Jersey and Florida, there were only three survivors from crews of 79. At week's end the Axis U-boat campaign in U.S. coastal waters had destroyed at least 27 ships, of which 17 were tankers...