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Thirty high school seniors have been chosen from 490 candidates in the Middle West, South, and Far West for Harvard National Scholarships, highest awards given to entering Freshmen. These scholarships carry maximum stipends of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year thereafter...
...Hitler was out to destroy U. S. Democracy. Senator Pepper therefore believed that the U. S. should do everything practicable to destroy Hitler first, told the Senate so nearly every working day. Up to last week, he had not come out for declaring war. He had been for 1) maximum aid to the Allies; 2) sending U. S. military planes to the British; 3) sending destroyers to the British; 4) giving President Roosevelt any powers necessary to mobilize the U. S. for defense; 5) conscription...
Centrifugal Force. A man in London weighs less than he would at the North Pole, more than he would at the equator. Reason: centrifugal force (which opposes gravity) increases with the distance of the object from the axis of spin. Hence the maximum effect would be felt at the equator (furthermost from the earth's axis of spin), least effect at the Pole (the axis). If the earth's rotation were 17 times faster, men at the equator would weigh nothing, drift off into space...
...British War Office made the best of it by declaring that its purpose in defending Somaliland at all was "to inflict the maximum losses on the enemy until withdrawal became inevitable. ... All guns except two . . . have been embarked. A great part of the materiel, stores and equipment has also been evacuated and the remainder destroyed. Our wounded have been safely brought away. . . . Enemy losses, particularly among the Blackshirt units, have been heavy and out of all proportion...
David's conclusion: "The summum bonum is to be achieved, therefore, through a maximum of individual freedom of action consistent with behavior which is not predatory, or anti-social...