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...Nations conference at San Francisco (for which he won the Guide's first'Willkie award). President and business manager is brother Thomas W. ("T. W."), 40. The newspaper's philosophy on race relations is still old P.B.'s own: "I am definitely opposed to the frontal attack. I believe in negotiation, arbitration, conciliation and persuasion. If that does not work, then I resort to the courts...
...advantage of the pilot bed is that a pilot lying down does not have as much frontal area as a pilot sitting up. This was not very important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines are slimmer and designers have learned to fold tanks and guns into nose and wings. To take full advantage of lower frontal areas, pilots may have to stretch out in the direction of the airstream...
Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
Incredibly enough, at week's end, the Gimo's confidence seemed to be working -at least for the moment. The "ten days to three weeks" were up, and the Communists were not yet in Nanking. They had been fought to a standoff in their frontal assault at Suchow and were now shifting for another try, apparently by encirclement, from the south...
...shot herself, Dr. Holmes explained, she had a "pyramiding depression" (a depression that grows steadily worse). The shotgun blast had, in effect, performed in seconds a brain operation that ordinarily takes hours. It was "practically the same," said Dr. Holmes, as an anterior lobectomy-i.e., part of the frontal areas of the brain, which control emotions, had been cut through. At the hospital the patient was "perfectly oriented and cooperative"; she is now working in a hotel and living normally with a daughter...