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Graduates as well as undergraduates have been organized. The Dental School Committee, composed of fourth-year dental students, last year overhauled an estimated 1800 sets of teeth belonging to children whose parents were either too ill-informed or poverty-stricken to send them to a dentist. A similar function was performed by the Medical School Committee, which has established a program of physical exams in the settlement houses and will set up a clinic in Dorcester House this year...
...civilized people ought to have poured the dust of penitence upon their heads. But only one nation remembered last week that ten years ago began the downfall of the post-war world, the illness of civilization which has stricken the whole of Europe and still spreads...
According to their stories, they sickened on rotten food. In crude bunks they lay for days, some of them stricken with fever. Six died. Many slept in lifeboats (left) rather than endure the stinking hold. One physician said that it was a "miracle" no epidemic broke out. They nicknamed their ship the Nevermore...
...promptly dubbed "Gluebottoms, because they ... do nothing but sit." >-The child evacuees ("Vackies") from the London slums "all wrote home to their parents to say that this place had been bombed to bits and that most of the children here have been killed." Result: a rush of their panic-stricken parents to take them away...
...third year of war opens, he must look with different upon the folly of his attack upon the Soviet Union. With the flower of his Army stricken on the fields of the Soviet land, and with thousands of his tanks and air planes reduced to scrap, he must now with ever-growing fear at the forces of the enemy he once despised...