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...efforts have been based on the premise that peace is a precious possession today and not a political football. We have endeavored and are succeeding in rallying around our program the united support of a rapidly growing number of Harvard students. We regret that at this late date a group sees fit to attempt to divide this growing unity which is so essential to the fight for peace. We call upon this group to demonstrate its sincerity by joining with the rest of Harvard in supporting our rally...
Dead Generation. Common denominator of this discontent was general discouragement with doziness and lacklustre leadership. For the fact remained that precious few able "under fifties'' were in view. The leaders of Germany. Italy and even France have for better or worse been pushed up from the masses. The generation of Britain's show-running aristocracy which should now be in the saddle is pushing up poppies in Flanders fields. Not even sandy Winston Churchill's latest whistling in the dark ("we are certainly by no means inclined to shrink") could alter the big fact that Britain...
...years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...
That has hurt my precious...
...aviatrixes. Afterwards Miss Raskova recalled that she subsisted on wild berries. Later Dictator Stalin, officially welcoming the distance fliers to the Kremlin, sternly observed that more care must be taken not to risk the lives of such heroic women as Miss Raskova "as their lives are more precious than any records." She then settled down, but one of her sister airwomen on that record flight flew Soviet military planes against the Finns recently. Raskova, according to Commerce Chamberman Williams, reminds one of the wooden Soviet female executive played by Garbo in Ninotchka...