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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a rolling green-sodded R.A.F. airdrome, the Airacobras tucked up their tricycle undercarriages, climbed like express elevators and turned east in a sweep, searching for Germans. In the air they looked like ducks. Their long necks were stiff with a fast-firing 20-mm. cannon and two .50-caliber machine guns. Their tight-clipped wings coddled four ,303-caliber machine guns. Their pilots sat in a comforting body of armor. Up above the two-mile mark they hunted for their first live targets. But no Messerschmitts appeared. The Airacobras waited a while, then turned homeward in a grey swoop...
...will find a suitable base to produce the material and equipment which is necessary to fight Hitler on all fronts, including the Soviet front. I would like . . . to express my great confidence that your armies will be victorious in the end over Hitler and to assure you of the greatest determination to afford the necessary material assistance...
...think that as a matter of principle the President of Harvard should express in public his views on the world crisis? Yes 70% No 28% No Opinion...
...their huddle. There were no nominees for the office, they triumphantly declared, and no legal way to name any. That a city of 1,014,128 registered voters could hold a write-in election and "select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
Ever since Law Professor A. James Casner set up house in Room 20, University Hall, last Friday for the express purpose of advising and placing men who have to face selective service or defense vocations, his hands have been so full that he hasn't even been able to get home in time for 7 o'clock supper...