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...inevitable that tutorial, a most tiring and time consuming from of instruction, most suffer o some extent as way" the Committee reported, referring to the depleted staff, the three torn year, and the present "tremendous" influx of students. It was prided out, however, that extensive tutorial restriction in nine departments are "presumably not necessitated by the present emergency...
...supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June, some 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be saved from the river's ravaging floods...
Marshall's final call was at bomb-torn Hankow, where he summed up his observations: "Military agreements will be carried out. . . . The situation is most encouraging. . . . Last month and the next two are the most critical months in the history of China for the next 50 years." At week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan...
...fact that, until he was King, David was capable of begetting only one child, and that by an adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David's intuitions of "other Jahvehs...
...Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow Catholics...