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...Army announced that it was training a picked shock troop. Called Commandos (Boer for the personnel of military and semimilitary expeditions against natives), this mystery unit was being toughened by long marches on skimpy rations, being taught to read maps, get through barbed wire, navigate vessels, swim in full battle equipment, handle all sorts of weapons and explosives, even master the pressure points of jujitsu...
Dally Dartmouth's Little Green Men are due for a shock this afternoon when they come up against a revamped CRIMSON touch football team at 4 o'clock at Soldiers Field...
...citizens who still had faith in themselves and in their nation the words of Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week were a shock. Warning an America First rally in Fort Wayne, Ind., that "it may be my last address," Mr. Lindbergh reported in a strained voice...
...taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness to solve the problem of wartime inflation, and so cushion the eventual shock...
...figures in the painting are therefore purposely given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...