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...paradox of the admissions situation, at the crux of the housing problem, has been compared by one of the harassed University officials involved to a five o'clock bus: everyone crowds to get on and complains if he fails, but if he succeeds he screams that his toes are being stepped...
...were aboard the cruisers that fateful night have been rightfully indignant at being referred to by the press as the "sitting duck cruisers" (we were steaming at 12 knots as specified by naval defense plans), but the crux of all insults was the inference in your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action...
...crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Is it not attended by material and spiritual evils which far exceed whatever the good that might result? When will our moralists give us a clear answer to this question...
...ambiguous nature of modern Protestant thought was well illustrated last week in a pronouncement from the Federal Council of Churches on the subject of having babies. In a statement called "Religion and the Birthrate" the Federal Council plumped cautiously for planned parenthood, sought more babies and yet fewer. The crux...
...Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...