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Perhaps the war's logical oddity number one at Harvard is the sudden burgeoning of the Far Eastern Languages Department. Although it remains on the books a department with a single undergraduate concentrator, its total for the past two years, there has been an overwhelming increase in the students taking courses in the department...
...mountains and the icier indifference of officialdom have for 13 years raised impassable barriers against a military highway from the U.S. to Alaska. Last week came a sudden thaw. From Ottawa (not Washington) the word went out that Alaska may get its highway at last...
...Germans hate to be caught off guard by a sudden offensive thrust at an unexpected point. It confuses them and upsets their own carefully laid plans. Last week the British surprised them outside Paris, and they bawled their displeasure to high heaven...
...text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to Liberty." The case goes on to claim that Indian self-government must be extended gradually, that sudden granting of it would result in civil war, ruinous to India and all its relations...
...greatest adventure began with the sudden conviction that he could fly.* For a while he just practiced Immelmann turns around the dining-room chandelier, in his nightshirt, but before he was done he had created an international situation, and he promised Mully never to fly again...