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...modern war the Sam Browne is as nonfunctional as the saber. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, both Britain and the U.S. made cloth belts regulation. Officers who had Sam Brownes could wear them, but only for dress occasions, unarmed. Later the U.S. barred the use of leather or brass for belts. Last week London followed suit: the Minister of Supply ruled out for the duration Sir Samuel's shiny military harness...
...home of a students' dining co-operative, and at its peak in 1898, fed 1,320 men three meals a day. As the center of University life moved south towards the Charles, however, the co-op became less popular and closed in 1925. From that date until the outbreak of the war the hall was seldom used...
...Rome, as the capital of Fascismo and now of Badoglio's government, is almost as crammed as Washington with governmental offices and employes. At least 500,000 government workers and 100,000 officials were in Rome at the outbreak...
...sudden outbreak took only six days to develop epidemic fury, jumped from seven to 39 cases. A quick-striking, infectious virus disease, dengue (pro nounced denggy) is almost never fatal, but for a week or ten days it lays out its victims, causing high fever, rashes and painful swellings, severe pains in head, eyes, muscles, joints. Mosquitoes carry...
...outbreak began one February. Suddenly everybody started laughing. Grinning millions walked out on their jobs. At Pennsylvania Station a train announcer bawled: "Express leaving for Mayaguana, Mozambique, Ambrizette, Mossamedes, and Sebastian Viscaine Bay." Men left their wives in droves. Narcissism, nymphomania, necking became general...