Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moral Basis. In answer to Occidentals who thought his Oriental formula fibreless, little Mohandas Gandhi last week declared that the U.S. and Britain lack the moral basis for waging war. In an interview with the United Press, he said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
...drive aimed at 10% of everybody's income. Quotas, to be "re-vised and stepped up" later, were established for all 3,070 U.S. counties; 200,000 members of local War Savings Bond Committees went to work. Investment security dealers saw an opportunity to be patriotic and to gain favor by ringing doorbells without getting paid for it. The 150th anniversary of the New York Stock Exchange, celebrated this week, took the form of a war bond rally...
...Advocate fiction writers in this sixth month of the war. The current Spring Fiction Issue which marks the first publication of the new Executive Board, departs from the macabre, the lurid and overly degenerate, characteristic of last year's issues. It is a welcome departure and one that should gain many new readers for Harvard's oldest literary magazine...
With most of the regulars absent, the '45 baseball team fell before Governor Dummer 5 to 2 at Newburyport yesterday afternoon. Bill McAuliffe failed to gain a victory in his first official mound start, and only George Casey and Billy Barron were able to solve the opposing hurler with any consistency. The team plays Yale Thursday at New Haven...
...Princeton the Varsity 150's had tough sledding. Arbitrarily placed in a rough outside lane, the Crimson dropped behind Princeton and Penn during the first half-mile when the latter were favored with calmer water. From the three quarter mark on the lightweights began to gain, but at the finish were still four feet behind Princeton, with Penn sandwiched second. The Tigers, in taking the Wright Cup from Harvard, shattered the Lake Carnegie Henly mark for the second time this year...