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...away in blood as the youth of Europe are being swept away, then is our last hope gone. So for our sakes as well as yours, for the sake of the world and all that it holds for the future of the race, keep your sanity, preserve your reason, cling fast to peace. John Haynes Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

Either one of the first two stages may last for the duration of the student's Cambridge stay, be that three months or four years. Some very fine people have been known to start with Radcliffe and cling to it till graduation, and many of those have ended up graduating summa cum laude. And after a man has advanced to an advanced stage he may still drop back into a lesser period of development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Will Learn at Radcliffe, Move West When Expert | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Traditionalists in lovemaking, as in most other aspects of social intercourse, die-hard Japanese cling stubbornly to a stylized amorous technique. Last week, to protect the customs of the country, the Tokyo Home Office announced a sweeping ban on all foreign love stories, particularly the French. The younger generation, newspapers explained, are apt on reading such literature to become deplorably excited, indulge in unJapanese kissing and carresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Through With Love | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...goal they cling to: Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Behind the Barbed Wire | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...Eagle Squadron drew its first blood last week. In a daylight sweep over German-occupied French territory, these U.S. fliers who had volunteered into the R.A.F. had been ordered to cling to the wings of a bomber squadron, and not run jauntily off for dogfights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Eagles Swoop | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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