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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Please answer, if you can or dare, one question...
...avoid being bombed is to avoid war. . . . Many of the questions which are asked concerning Air Raid Precautions are unanswerable in the form in which they are put. If I am asked 'Does any gas mask give complete protection against phosgene?' the only literally true answer is 'No'. . . . But one would be safe in a phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. It is the same with shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb...
...answer to last year's petition of 192 upperclassmen for interhouse debating, the House Chairmen yesterday announced the final plans and regulations for carrying through this plan...
...Hart, who employs a business manager, who "runs a temperature" when he does not feel like working, who has to be yanked out of bed late in the day by a determined Negro servant girl, and who prefers to meet a question with a wisecrack rather than an answer, very likely knows to the fourth decimal place the dollars-and-cents value of his "temperament." Aside from Jerome Kern years ago, Rodgers does not feel that anyone has influenced him musically. He hates swing, and so does Hart: "It's old stuff. Benny Goodman only does better what...
Last year in a small room on the first floor of the House Williams and Swett were able to assist some 300 students from every branch of the University to find an answer to personal questions. The entire gamut of possible problems was run, from a Freshman's doubts about taking up Chinese to a graduate student's hesitation about taking a wife. So far, it is claimed, no situation has stumped their resourcefulness...