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...elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...
...Finland. Russia is the arch-criminal this time, not Germany, and as far as the United States is concerned she has committed an outrage with possibly even less justification than those of the Reich, against a country which is more intimately related to America by common ties and friendship than either Czechoslovakia or Poland. The significance of the Finnish conquest, (its outcome is undebatable) may be less far-reaching than those of its predecessors, but pacifistic sentiment in the United States will clearly be put to another severe strain...
Both apt and arch is the tank officer's metaphor...
Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a good imitation of an arch housewife who, having made her family believe they would get nothing but pork & beans for supper, bounces beaming out of the kitchen with a big, beautiful platter of cookies. Three weeks ago the Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, bestowed the 1938 and 1939 prizes in Physiology & Medicine on Corneille Heymans of Belgium and Gerhard Domagk of Germany, gave newshawks to believe that no more awards would be forthcoming this year. Apparently the Academy changed its mind. For last week it announced four more prizewinners...
More serious than this subjective terror are dislocations of the jaw, tiny compression fractures of the spine, which occurred to metrazol patients in over 40% of one series of cases. During their violent convulsions, patients arch their backs with such force that sometimes they literally crush their vertebrae...