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...Widener Reading Room contains 264 seats; if pushed to the utmost, 310. Economics A has 455 enrollees, Government 1, 425, and History 1 has 341. When the usual hour exam and reading room traffic hits Widener, most late-comers will be studying on the marble stairs. The Union library no longer will be able to accomodate part of the Freshman class since that building has been given over completely to the Navy. Nor will the House libraries relieve the congestion since each House library has only one copy of each basic book in History, Government and Economics...
...brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty to extract the utmost from merely adequate...
Frank MacDermot, a member of the Eire Senate, now in the U.S., wryly admitted: "We claim an overriding right for Irish nationals to commit crimes of violence in British territory that would be punished with the utmost severity at home. The I.R.A. declare that we are at war with Great Britain, and we apparently agree with them to the extent of justifying unofficial Irish acts of war, but it is to be a new and improved sort of war with the violence all on one side...
With Stalingrad gone, said Karpovich, Baku oil could be sent across the Caspian to ports in the Ural region and shipped from there overland by rail. Such a method, of course, would tax Russian rail facilities to the utmost...
They must assume that Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt and the military men have decided to do the utmost that can be done, as soon as it can be done, at the places where it will do the most to hurt Hitler and help Russia. The people will then measure the decision and its consequences against a known record of promises and possibilities-the record by which Churchill, Roosevelt and the generals must stand or fall with their world in their time, and in the judgment of history...