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...although he later relented. Two-thirds of the A.V.G.'s pilots had come out of the U.S. Navy, and they did not relish going into the Army any more than the Navy liked the Army's bid for them. But for those who stayed in China, the shift from the happy-fly-lucky A.V.G. to the Army was easier than they had expected...
Further evidence of this liturgical shift came at the opening exhibition of the denomination's new Arts Guild "to foster religious use of the arts." This show was the first Salon of Religious Photography ever held. It featured before-&-after pictures of Congregational chancels that have been remodeled to put less emphasis on organ, organist and pulpit, make the communion table and cross the focal point...
Over & over, in the context of world war, these essays shift from an easy equability to the sort of fierceness with which gentle men sometimes astonish bullies...
Night Workers. Hartford, Conn, and Los Angeles have both ordered special flags for night war workers' homes. The flags, hung outside homes in the daytime, are supposed to insure traffic quiet for sleeping workers of the "MacArthur Shift...
...planning such a course of study does not mean choosing only courses in math and physics, with perhaps a little military Japanese thrown in. Liberal education has the special virtue of flexibility and breadth sufficient to cope with abnormal situations. It changes gradually, as the main lines of thought shift from age to age, but it is adaptable as its stands, to cope with emergencies. War is an unending succession of emergencies, and a mechanical mind cannot hope to deal with them successfully...