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...danger was that the Red Army, though intact, may have been so weakened by its colossal expenditures on the southern steppes that it could not muster the men and materials necessary for a future offensive from positions beyond the Volga or even farther back toward the Urals. Russian offensives this year have been limited in scope and results. Nowhere have the Russians exhibited much offensive power, and from beyond the Volga their task would be even more monumental. Russia is losing not only its great industrial and agricultural resources in the south; it is losing at least 40 million...
That conclusion is no surprise to anyone, for not one of the starting team today was on the line at the opening kickoff in the Yale game last fall. Gone is the stalwart line that proved itself impervious to all the big guns such teams as the Midshipmen could muster last year; a forward wall which many dubbed the greatest in Harvard history. And in its place today there is a front line which boasts only three lettermen; three are Sophomores, and the other, Len Cummings, was on pro last year...
...engines are ten times as powerful as those of the old (1910) Wyoming. Her auxiliary power plant, the one that lights the lights and turns the turrets, churns up enough electricity for a city of 20,000-more horsepower (14,000) than a pre-World War I dreadnought could muster for all purposes...
...indication that they are excused from imperative civilian sacrifices. They are given the privilege of staying at college while so many others must immediately go to the fighting fronts. No special rights or immunities are given them that are not granted to other civilians. Yet Harvard can muster only thirty-five per cent of its undergraduates to make the colossal sacrifice of a quarter a week...
...Allies retain troops in India," he explained in a manifesto, "is to prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India's post-war self-government. As a last...