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...Army unit, for example, grants three merits to donors--merits being both marks of distinction and the only means of gaining sought-for privileges. The Navy excuses all donors from one week's worth of drill. These units and the Air Force are circulating sheets for donors to sign, thus in effect making it easier to single out the queasy for purposes of exerting the broadest possible pressure. Even classrooms have occasionally become pressure foundries. Singly, these measures may not be overly offensive; combined, they...
...Rock ore was at the bottom of a lake until Eaton, with $5,000,000 from the RFC, shifted the course of the Seine River and pumped out 125 billion gallons of water to get at it (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942). In 1949, he gave Inland options to test-drill nearby deposits. Eaton said these tests indicated the presence of 50 billion tons of ore, some of it with 62 to 64% iron content"-i.e., as rich as the famous Mesabi ores now nearing exhaustion. No man to belittle his holdings, Eaton grandly added: "These deposits go right down...
...stiff terms. Phillips will have to spend at least $1,200,000 on exploration before June 30, 1956, and another 40? an acre on the million-acre tract every year thereafter. It must also sink two wells by 1956, start another two by the middle of 1958, and drill a well a year in each of the two adjoining districts* (Katalla-Yakataga) from 1959 to 1963, making a total of twelve wells in ten years. Phillips will lose the rights to land it does not develop under the terms of the contract...
Nouns and syntax are the fundamentals of any language, but they are hardly the totality. Under the present language program, too many courses seek only to enable the student to pass the College's minimum language requirement, chaining students to grammar drill and little else. A college language course even for beginners, should offer a perspective over more than irregular verbs. Unless a language is taught in the context of a foreign culture, its fundamentals are quickly forgotten, regarded solely as means to hurdle a requirement. Yet many College language courses, themselves with only the requirement in view, plod...
...transit, valued at $516 and one of 15 devices used to shoot accurately the big army howitzers, has been missing since drill on Monday...