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Last week occupied Europe took Hitler's words to heart. The conquered wanted freedom and revenge. Not by prayer, but by civil war, they sought it. The Slav peoples of central and southeastern Europe, as if they heard some far-off blood call of their cousins on the plains of Russia, sprang into bloody action...
...seconds the wardens had the streets clear. Soon, far and high, but nearer & nearer, came the drone of planes. Antiaircraft fire began to slam. Tearing down through the night sky, a far-off whistle rising hysterically into a splitting scream, came the first bombs. Soon the whole sky was screaming with bombs, while the city-target below bumped and shook in the bursts, and incendiary bombs spluttered...
...excuse. Because the University has spread beyond the original acre and a quarter of cowyard procured by Governor Winthrop in 1637 for "a schoale or colledge" is no reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing...
...that the end. This week the President made ready to ask Congress for a whopping big addition to the funds authorized for Britain and China under the Lend-Lease Act. It was hinted that the sum requested might come to as much as $7,000,000,000. In far-off Argentina the Buenos Aires Standard looked on in awe, headlined a story about the President's appropriations: "Oliver Twist of the West," after Dickens' hungry boy who wanted more treacle...
...Finished last week were 150 more miles of distributing lines which pipe the water from the filter plant (capacity: 1,000,000 gallons a day) near Riverside to the reservoirs of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Santa Ana, nine other cities. As the sweet waters of the far-off Colorado slowly welled up last week into a subterranean chamber supplying Sunset Reservoir, Pasadena became the first community in the system to get the District's water...