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...cinema resists rational criticism almost as firmly as a six-day bicycle race, or perhaps love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing...
...Germans managed to devise some counter-jamming measures, but a combination of "Carpet" and "Window" jamming was never able to answer. So effective was the Allies' jamming system--it reduced German anti-aircraft efficiency by 75 percent--that by the end of the war almost 90 percent of Germany's high-frequency radio experts, some 7,000 men, were diverted from other urgent work to the single job of finding a way to prevent jamming of German radar...
...growing trend toward greater proportional representation for Western students has been reversed, the report showed. New England, which for years has been the home of about one-third of the students, now supplies 47 percent, or 1331 out of a total of 2903 students checked. Maintaining its perennial lead among the individual states, Massachusetts alone is represented by 1125 students, or 37 percent of the entire enrollment...
Most sparsely represented area of the country is the Rocky Mountain region, which, with 18 men, makes up less than half of one percent of the University total. With less than two percent representation, the Pacific coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington have also lost ground...
...campaign of the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries, midwives are required to vow: "I swear in the name of God and my own conscience that I will never practice abortions . . . that I will always make use of the umbilical sterile dressing and of silver nitrate solution at one percent...