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Couldn't we make this process a little easier on the nervous system? We might-but then we wouldn't be TIME. For every issue of TIME contains uncountable thousands of facts, big, little and intermediate, and of the utmost variety and complexity. One query about one fact may produce three answers, all different, and somehow these must be reconciled. So, not because we're a particularly quarrelsome bunch but because facts will not fit into goosestepping patterns, there are on almost any story clashes and contradictions, some major, some minor, which have to be resolved before...
...delay and loss meant a great deal to the Allies. Upon this battle turned the whole timing of the difficult, not-yet-begun European campaign, and therefore of the Pacific campaign, which must wait until Hitler is beaten. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt advised the Germans: ". . . Victory demands the utmost perseverance and requires that we should hold out 'five minutes longer...
Assuming command of the Army Training Schools, Colonel Wood stated in his Order that "it is mandatory that the training program at this station be conducted with the utmost smoothness and efficiency." To that end all men attached to the station "will promptly familiarize themselves with and conform to" customs and procedures of instruction, civilian administration, and social forms "to such a degree as to harmonize with and conform to the general environment and atmosphere within and about Harvard University...
...Evoke, to Develop. "The biggest job in the Army is to knock the complacency out of young officers and men, to make them realize that only by dint of their greatest effort, their utmost unselfishness, their infinite pains, and their capacity for self-sacrifice . . . will victory be attained. We must arouse in them the spirit of the offensive...
...know what those words really mean? Many of our young people, despite their high-school and university educations, don't know until they have been in the Army among combat troops for months-greatest effort, utmost unselfishness, infinite pains, capacity for self-sacrifice...