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...longer did the German press with hold comment on the deterioration of U. S.-German relations. While Adolf Hitler threatened to sink any U. S. ship coming into the war zone (see p. 21) the press told the people frankly that U. S. sympathy and aid to Great Britain were an actuality. With this news there was cunningly coupled the charge that U. S. aid was designed to lead Britain to her ruin, to the end that the U. S. might inherit the British Empire...
Buckley, the flashiest Feslerman, always seems to be right at the top when it comes to scoring points, but he will have to sink quite a few baskets if he is going to equal or surpass his feat of trailing only Broberg and Bennett last year for top scoring honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...more Stukas and Italian picchiatelli dive bombers had attacked the rest of the convoy. The destroyer Gallant was crippled by an Italian torpedo, but limped into port (the Italians said she foundered). The cruiser Southampton was so badly fired by Nazi bombs that the British were finally forced to sink her. Said Military Expert Hanson Baldwin: "The Southampton's sinking marks a red-letter day in the history of warfare. Some day, when sufficient forces have been concentrated against it and sufficient hits are made, a battleship, too, will be sunk from...
Until the host of young people are provided with a permanent place in a revised economic order, there are before them two possible futures. They can drift along, bewildered, dissatisfied, listening for the sweet music of a Pied Piper's promises. Or they can sink their roots into the democratic earth, can get a feeling that they are both giving something to, and getting something from, our society...
...responsible for one of the most crucial theatres of war should have passed tense hours reading poetry was altogether fitting. He was flying to help the Greeks, and poetry was being made in Hellas. Theirs was a battle which wanted Homer, a cause which heeded Byron: Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock...