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...further indication of the bad taste which that game left in the mouths of the Quakers was the 37.2% vote it received as the biggest disappointment of the year for Penn students. Red and Blue football grizzlies and gorillas were seen stalking around the campus muttering dire threats for at least a week after the game...
...prevent a catastrophe of that extent. But with the German people first in line at the pantry door, with crops this year "well below normal," and with transportation disorganized and distributive channels disrupted, he does not see how widespread; disease-inviting malnutrition can be avoided. Rejecting the more dire forecasts, it appears fairly certain that outside relief is urgently necessary to prevent an incalculable amount of misery and the disasters of epidemics...
...world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...
...week began badly enough, with raids lasting as long as seven and a half hours, with as many as six alarms a day. But when Winston Churchill verbally thumbed his nose in answer to Herr Hitler's dire speech of warning, and when the R. A. F. lashed out at German targets harder than ever, the Fuhrer's temper broke. He ordered the works...
...about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over the Somaliland border toward Italy's supply lines through Giggiga, Harar, Dire Dawa...