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...tain regime had been even briefer than the interim Directory which, during 1795-99, compromised the French Revolution's ideals and opened the control gates to Napoleon. No longer able to maintain the fiction of personal power, Pétain handed over the destinies of the country he professed to love to the hands of a man abhorred throughout France. To Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler's Auvergne shyster, Pétain gave a dictator's power to rule by decree. For himself, Pétain succeeded in preserving at least the voice to appeal to the wavering...
...addition to the loss of this traditional ceremony, Class Day will be simplified to include only the customary Senior exercises in the House Quadrangle, and the reunion classes are expected to plan briefer and more serious programs than in past years...
...Levin's study attempts both to place Joyce in proper relation to his literary progenitors and progeny, and to integrate his three major works and various minor productions into a consistent whole. A brief acquaintance with Joyce should convince one of the difficulty of the task, while even a briefer perusal of Levin should demonstrate his success at achieving it. This is not to suggest, however, that the book is not worth a careful reading, for a tightly-written style compresses a multitude of ideas into its relatively small compass. Expansion might make easier comprehension for the layman, but less...
...tons monthly, some 13% of total current U.S. production. Defense Plant Corp. would finance the new ore-handling and refining equipment ($28,000,000). Phelps Dodge had figured Morenci's vast reserves would take 28-30 years to extract. Now it may have to figure on a briefer future...
Fastest performance of the day was turned in by the victorious visitors' Captain Don Donahue who established an accepted 120-yard high hurdle record at 14.5 seconds, one tenth briefer than Gene Record's Harvard run of 1932. Donahue now holds a hurdle sweep having set the Crimson low hurdle mark last spring at 23.6 for the 220 yards...