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...admonishes not to attack unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...
...wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they can watch that battlefield with remote interest. But questions exist as part of their daily classroom experience which are troublesome and unanswered...
Penetration v. Laceration. Battlefield wounds are of two main types: penetrating, lacerating. Penetrating wounds are caused by bomb fragments and bullets, lacerating wounds by high explosive bombs. "Secondary bodies" may also act as missiles. "Thus the contents of a victim's pockets," say Drs. Mitchiner and Cowell, "may be peppered by the force of the burst bomb, and such things as ... penknives, coins and pencils may be found distributed in the body, and occasionally outside objects such as pebbles, bits of masonry, and even the bones and soft tissues of a nearby victim may cause wounds." Grease, dirt...
...last week Fair officials chortled. In the war between culture and sex, culture had finally won a victory and on no less a battlefield than Treasure Island. Figures for the first three weeks of August showed that the Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts had outgrossed Sally Rand...
...luckily remote from the main radio battlefield. In 1920, Lenin foresaw "the newspaper without paper and without distance." Now Tass, official Soviet news agency, radios its news daily to 3,254 newspapers. Some two-thirds of all Russia's long-distance telegraphic communication is relayed by radio. Russia's 75 stations (mightiest, 500-kilowatt Radio Moscow) speak 62 languages in reaching the 170,000,000 inhabitants. Listening is largely in groups, in workers' clubs, factories, etc., over receivers which tune in the Government programs, nothing else. Russia is too far away from the rest of the crowded...