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...English A2, and History 14a in comparison with the daily forming and stating of idealism's, the angry bull-sessions, the satisfaction of homeward treks as the sun comes up, the dashing of hopes, and the sudden thrill of Making The Board, the ferment intellectual and otherwise, the roar of the presses, the reports of the thoughts and actions of Harvard and of the world? "The House Committee reports . . . more organization . . . as President . . . lack of advertising . . . hope for the future . . . annual assessment . . . scooped the Boston papers . . . Lampoon incident . . ." Vag nodded approvingly: the old wise words, the admonition...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting and adjusting the rig in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese...
...patriotic dissertation by Messrs. Beaverbrook, Truman, Willkie was the same as that written in heart's blood on countless memos on the President's toy-cluttered desk: give the war effort a single director, give that director total powers. It was the chant of industry, the roar of the press. It was what the people had wanted since June...
Mahatma Gandhi, 72, last week resigned the leadership of his Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men) who want political careers in an independent (or dominion-status) India and cannot imagine getting them from Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito. The Mahatma would no longer try to lead men who would not follow. Rather than step from his principles, the ascetic little lawyer stepped from his leadership...
...salvo of heavy bombs whistled down," wrote Frank Hewlett of the United Press from Manila. "With a roar that rocked the city for blocks, the bombs crunched down along the northern edge of the walled city...