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...General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, the British Army's new Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped out of roads and highway crossings, where they had been planted to deter invading Nazi war machines, were pillars and posts and upended rails-lest they impede the mobility of Sir Alan's defense forces...
When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
...hoped," Dean Hanford stated, "that the charge will deter men from signing contracts with the thought that they will perhaps give up their assignment before the beginning of the next college year in order to live outside the House...
...their support of the war on spiritual values, it would not be surprising if they now felt disappointment, or even hopelessness, but how disillusionment? The Bible says the struggle to reach the kingdom of God is infinitely long, infinitely hard, but that the loss of one battle must not deter those who are sure they are on the right road. It seems likely that they were never on any surer ground than the merest private in the A. E. F., and that they are simply mirrors of the public mind...
There are no exact figures on the number of hard of hearing people in the U. S. but this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...