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...suggest that we try to 'conscript for sport.' America has always believed in specialization and has done everything to encourage any outstanding youth. France has come into line, using great athletes as directors [i.e., at paid jobs...
...maneuvers in 1894 as a German Army conscript, Schweitzer carried a Greek Testament in his pack, and germinated the "eschatological interpretation of Jesus" (later published as The Quest of the Historical Jesus) that won him his first theological notice. Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon...
...irrepressible Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton was at it again. While Congressmen solemnly weighed the pros & cons of peacetime military training for all able-bodied young men (see U.S. AT WAR). the author of Why Men Behave like Apes and Vice Versa popped up with a fresh idea: why not conscript young women too? Argued Anthropologist Hooton...
...Ontario riding of Grey North, the political temperature rose. Cried CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey: "We should . . . conscript wealth and industry as well as men." Cried Tory Candidate Garfield Case: his opponents were "outsiders," the CCF was fascist, General McNaughton was "incompetent." Cried Liberal Candidate Andrew B. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister: "The Canadian Army overseas is being adequately reinforced...
...forces pressed close on the enemy's heels. The Japanese were herded out of Kweichow and the Chinese spilled back into Kwangsi Province. At week's end they had branched out across country, and were taking over Hochih, 40 miles inside Kwangsi. Behind the advancing Chinese troops, conscript and contract laborers already worked to restore recaptured airstrips for emergency use by Major General Chennault's fighters. But the nearest major air base, at Liuchow, was 95 miles beyond Hochih...