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...Army in this vital war area is supported entirely by local foods collected as grain taxes. Civilian officials also each get a monthly quota of grain. The Government people hoped the fall crops of millet corn would meet the needs of the peasantry. But no rain fell and the autumn harvest was almost a total loss...
...tremendous miscalculation no grain was sent to the famine land in autumn when it might have arrived in time. Now, aside from American relief money and energy, there seems little hope of getting enough grain over the war-smitten routes of interior China before it is too late...
...Harvard squad's schedule is considerably limited this spring, but a few innovations will liven up the program. Two cross-country meets, hitherto strictly an autumn diversion, will be on the card. These hill-and-dale affairs are scheduled for March 27 and April 3, both against Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern...
...class, asked too many questions, volunteered too many answers." Dean C. William Huntley of Western Reserve, a child psychologist, decided that college was the place for the boy. On I.Q. tests Kennie scores about 182, which means that his "mental age" is about 20. When he entered college last autumn, his fellow students regarded him as a repulsive little smart aleck. Since then he has become less offensive to them. He is still enough of a small boy to raid the sugar jar in the chemistry laboratory. But when he was questioned about his chemistry, Kennie answered...
...days after Timoshenko's breakthrough, the Russians won an even bigger victory-the capture of Rzhev. It was from Rzhev, 140 miles northwest of Moscow, that the Germans began the powerful drive on Russia's capital in the autumn of 1941 which almost landed Adolf Hitler inside the Kremlin. It was the city which, above all others, Hitler had to hold if he hoped to try again...