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...list goes on but it is too long to relate here. Each man will have to absorb and learn it for himself. But to help him, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, wrote a book called "Three Centuries of Harvard...
...June 13, 1917, Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
...more water, soda, vichy or ginger ale in highballs. The human system can absorb just so much liquid. . . . After the drink has been served, put the bottle back on the back-bar. A bottle standing in front of the customer suggests and invites another drink...
Feeding them the hormone did not work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists...
Biggest change now ahead is the expected reorganization of the Eighth Air Force into tactical and strategic air forces, like the North African air command. Likeliest candidate to head the former is Annapolis-Man Lewis Brereton, who would absorb the Eighth's Air Support Command...