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...sardine packer instead of the real-estate agent. With the army, navy, and airforce granting exemptions to college students, no one can quite see how all those signed up will be fitted in during the hot months ahead. Thus a policy which leaves rooms standing empty while students sweat in confined quarters designed for half their numbers, and which forces a few new Freshmen out of the Houses into a Yard which is no longer in the main stream of undergraduate life, has become an outmoded link in the University's war program. Such a ruling should be erased from...
...people, President Roosevelt had no doubts. They were ready for blood-tears-sweat talk, and he came the closest yet to giving it to them...
...read & write Japanese; to the best of the Government's knowledge, the U.S. has no one at all who can teach such essential linguistic tools of war as Burmese, Swahili, Malagasy. For its traditional monolingual isolation, the U.S. last week paid with mental toil and sweat...
...tiny Burmese girls were unable to hold him down. The surgeon held with one hand and cut with the other. The soldier moaned in Chinese: "Ma ma." It was pitiful to hear the Chinese calling his mother in the same sounds we use. The doctor, his body gleaming with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid him on the floor in an inside room, picked up another Chinese soldier and resumed operating. The nurses rushed out to the courtyard and washed towels in a pool beneath...
Ranging from a model of several Eskimos doing a dance in a steam sweat bath to priceless Chinese pottery dug up in the Philippines, the exhibition is arranged in such a way that the visitor follows a definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...