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...intensive training begins soon and consists of lining up six Smith girls who will be expected to provide six free meals to each contestant. Just before the race the Funsters will fill themselves with beer so that none will be tempted to touch the evil liquor and impair his chances while the race is under way. As a consolation prize, the last man to pump his way into the town of a thousand temptations will be given 15 pounds of tobacco by the Smoker's Den, the theory being that the last man in will have have broken training most...
Young Cotton Ed's request was backed by a letter, signed by twelve of the committee's 20 members: "To remove a clerk with the experience and background that he must have . . . would greatly impair the effectiveness of the committee work and retard general progress in vital legislation. . . . It is the desire of the committee that Mr. Smith be deferred." Signers included Isolationist Burt Wheeler, Nebraska's liberal George Norris, half a dozen brother Senators of Senator Smith (but not old Cotton Ed). Three of the signers (like old Cotton Ed) had voted against the Selective Service...
...Sever or seriously impair American and British communications with Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific...
Once the Nazis get steamrolling down the Lowlands, the narrative picks up; by the time Dunkirk is evacuated, history supplies its pity and terror. A Tolstoy, or even a Malraux. might illuminate such action; Author Gibbs can only impair it. Such enormous human convulsions have more reality in newspapers and newsreels than they can ever hope to get as a weakly painted backdrop for the stock characters of a second-rate romance...
However, such grim fatalism is unlikely to appeal to conservative financiers, even though no more radical an organization than the Rockefeller Foundation has recently begun to spend its capital funds. Most universities are still unwilling to impair their financial integrity for the sake of academic standing. But the solons of university finance would do wrong to reject Mr. Hutchins' proposal in toto, without scanning it for possibilities of compromise. It might, for instance, be an excellent idea to preserve existing endowments intact while spending those which are made in the future. Whatever the economic wisdom of Mr. Hutchins's plan...