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...German dive-bombers, from the coasts and airdromes of nearby Norway, screamed down through the snow. German destroyers and submarines, from the fjords and ports of lower Norway, attacked with shells and torpedoes. The Trinidad holed a German destroyer. The Eclipse stopped another dead in its sudden charge, but had to run when two more enemy destroyers appeared...
Many of the simple, helpless Burmese peasants had fled their farms, depriving the Chinese of guides, carriers and food, but otherwise not aiding the Japs. But some Burmese sold out to the Japs; some actually joined the Jap Army. At night sudden fires set by Burmese traitors betrayed Chinese positions. Burmese guerrillas caught two Chinese soldiers, chopped off their hands. But the Chinese fought on, and the Japs came...
...half dozen of us Harvard men paraded through the Maginot-like corridors of the Metropolitan backstage. Behind us trailed the three dozen supers from the other colleges, figuring, I suppose, that we knew where we were going. We walked a ways and climbed some stairs and all of a sudden there was a curain on one side of us and some scenery on the other and some people doing calisthenics (nasty word!) and ballet steps in front of us. We had stumbled on the stage. For the first time someone paid some attention to us and kicked us off. Three...
Stressing the necessity of such primary training. Dean Holmes, of the School declared "No sudden period of intensive training for small numbers can give us a victorious army of air-fighters. The fundamentals of flight are not hard, and if all schools teach them, the process of developing a great body of pilots will be made easier...
Actually panic, which is sudden, unreasonable fear, may make people stampede, faint, sweat, shake, soil their breeches, have palpitation of the heart-but it will not kill a healthy person...