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...Four Maryknoll Sisters rode bicycles for six days over torn roads to get to their mission in the interior of South China. War does not stop the nuns. They have opened five new missions in China since the Sino-Japanese War began...
...Pier, the U.S. Navy took a look at her shallow draft, her gangling length (484.5 feet, overall), decided that with a little face-lifting and some new glands, she would do as a remodeled carrier. Her four stacks could be moved to one side, her upper deck and superstructure torn away. The old crone would become a Valkyrie. Before summer's end, said the Navy, Navy flyers on the Great Lakes will get carrier training on the waddling old dreamboat...
...Eastern Languages with its obvious intimacy with the world situation, stands as the most war-torn department of all the various language fields and English. The smaller departments have found that their cliques of faithful adherents will not desert them to the more warlike concentrations, and the larger have been able to adjust their programs and retain their usefulness and attractiveness...
This spring marks the 23rd that Bert Haines has been coaching Harvard crews, and under his veteran eye a promising squad of 150-pounders is rounding into form. Graduation and acceleration have torn to shreds the great eight of last year, but Haines has the material with which to fashion another...
Soon you would go by streetcar (if the tracks hadn't been torn up for scrap), buy a Victory bicycle-or you would walk. A Senate committee heard a forecast that 1,000,000 autos would be stranded by July; 12,000,000 by the end of 1943. Already used tires with a few thousand miles still in them were selling for $50 apiece in Phoenix, Ariz...