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...School of Education building, and the building which houses the Russian Research Center will be torn down to make way for the new General Education building...
...compensate for the rigorous regulations of European libraries, particularly the Bibliotheque Nationale. Continuous loud talking is allowed in periodical and reading rooms, not to mention the stacks, where even lunches are munched lately. Expensive reference works like encyclopedias and dictionaries are handled so roughly by users that pages are torn and parts are even ripped out. Feet are displayed right on the reading table, close to your nose, if you happen to be sitting opposite the comfort-seeker, and I can mention a few other habits and uses or rather abuses which students should have been taught long...
Somehow, the flow of bright ribbons was still not trickling down to the enlisted ranks.* Near Waegwan a few months ago, a corporal named Everett L. Elmore headed his boat across the bullet-torn Naktong River for the enemy-held shore. Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree...
...neither surprised nor particularly dazzled by the fact that the U.S. has been able at the same time to pour billions in dollars and goods into the war-torn countries of Europe and Asia. He is calmly convinced that the U.S. can now turn to building $50 billion a year worth of tanks, planes and guns with only a temporary halt in the flow of new houses, bigger television screens and better automatic toasters. "The productivity of the U.S. is so tremendous," said Charles Wilson recently, "that if we started an all-out economic mobilization today, we could practically fill...
...Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written part, that of Captain Vere. His smallest gesture is sure and meaningful. King presents a lucid portrayal of a man torn between what should be and what must be. At the same time he preserves Vere's identity as a symbol, not of the ultimate good, but of the only good attainable on earth...