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They cared-and would continue to. no matter how faint their voices in the thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...
...strength for five minutes against what was practically a dead weight without the slightest chance to relax a muscle was a severe test of endurance. After a contest, some men could not at once sit up, some collapsed. I remember one who fell in a dead faint. . . . Pulling from cleats in a prone position put such strain on the heart that many athletes were permanently injured and so the game was outlawed in the early...
...Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged' in America ... is more esthetically barren and tasteless than anything that the world has previously produced...
...nerve gas" like acetyl choline, one drop of which in liquid form will, if placed on a skin abrasion, quickly induce unconsciousness, followed later by no ill effects. Swiss sources last week said the Germans had experimented with such a gas - with a faint geranium odor - against which ordinary filter masks are useless...
...result of all this reading matter is, if a random sample may be trusted, complete confusion by the time late September rolls around. Into this slough of despond the Crimson is endeavoring, as it has always in the past, to throw a faint ray of light. Unfortunately the Freshman members of the staff are very few and therefore the Crimson must rely upon its poll to get an accurate undergraduate opinion upon the courses normally open to Freshmen. This is the way in which '43 can pass on its heritage to '44, and if by the third page the task...