Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pointed out the distinction between "undernourishment, or deficiency in calorie intake, and malnutrition, or deficiency in proteins, vitamins, and minerals," remarking that the more vital problem is to maintain the quality of the national diet, especially in regard to vitamin content, in order to "promote vigor, resistance to disease, and a high morale...
...Berlin, officers said stiffly that "it has never been the practice of the German fighting forces to disturb the quiet of that holy day," and strongly implied that a spontaneous Christmas truce is possible this year at least in regard to German bombings. During World War I in various individual sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor...
...wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than in 1932, and street begging had considerably decreased. However, people in rags, with indescribably dirty hands and faces, often covered with pocks...
...However much any group of undergraduates may disagree with the opinion of the President of this University, there should prevail an ordinary regard for the institutions and their representatives, and I deeply regret that such an unpleasant incident occurred when we were your guests last Saturday...
...regard to adopting the conscription plan of Yale's President Seymour Dr. Conant said he didn't think world conditions were definite enough to demand a permanent compulsory service. He feels that if such measures become necessary, Dr. Seymour's suggestion is one of the best to adopt...