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Election of seven honorary members, and 46 Seniors to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society has been announced by its officials. The new 1942 membership brings the total to 70, about one-tenth of the graduating class...
...mined coal and taught country school to pay his way through school, earned $862 his first year as a practicing lawyer. Three years after college he began to wonder what was wrong with his eyes, found he should have been wearing strong glasses all along: he had one-tenth normal vision...
...United Nations command hung grimly to its toehold on the near side of the vast island of New Guinea (one-tenth the area of the U.S.) and strove to shake loose the hold of the Jap on the other side. The Jap bounced right back, raided the Allies' New Guinea base at Port Moresby almost daily...
After qualifying for the finals with a time of 2:31.8, the best he has done this season, Curwen finished up sixth in the final heat, which was taken by the Eli's Jack Meyer in 2:24.5, one-tenth of a second faster than Princeton's Dick Hough did it in the 1939 meet...
Thirteen million American Negroes, one-tenth of our population, place no conditions upon their support of their country in this war against fascism. They know the issues at stake. Their sole demand is for full integration into every phase of the war effort. They are supported in this demand by anti-fascists everywhere. In fighting for democracy and against fascism aboard, we must not give up the struggle against every expression of fascist brutality and fascist racism at home. This is the meaning of anti-lynch legislation today. Clinton Oliver, Chairman, Harvard Inter-Race Council...