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...unmarked men are re-graded (B and C students are eliminated.) Finally, after more discussion and checking, about 80 are approached and 70 men are finally selected. The men who finally participate are probably studied more thoroughly and from more points of view than has hitherto been done...
...striking significance was the fact that the declaration, like Britain's offer, officially recognized the Moslem League's demands for a separate Moslem state. Hitherto Congress has loftily insisted that the separatist talk is merely a threat which would not be strongly supported among India's great 80,000,000 Moslem minority...
...gold mines). The most commonly used solo instruments in concertos are the piano, violin and cello, and concertos have been written for other instruments: clarinet, horn, saxophone, even the double-bass. For the voice, composers have written vocalises (wordless songs), have included wordless voice parts in orchestral works, but hitherto have not essayed an out-&-out concerto...
...industry in a time when the shortage of alcohol is acute" was announced last week by Fordham's Frederick F. Nord before the American Chemical Society. Nord's starting point: his discovery that pentose, a sugar which is plentiful in corn and wood but has hitherto resisted fermentation by yeast enzymes, can be attacked and broken down by other enzymes secreted by certain fungi grown on mineral foodstuffs. The fungi reduce pentose to a heavy syrup (pyruvic acid) easily converted to ethyl alcohol...
...There was also time for sentiment, hitherto the stumbling block of U.S. radio propaganda. Army Hour managed it without slopping over. Its brief drama of a World War I veteran seeing his son off to World War II was just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...