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...John Squire, like all poets, loves the euphonious past participles of our irregular verbs. So do I. But . . . English usage is just what we need to get rid of. It is overloaded with unnecessary grammar; and our mad persistence in trying to spell the sounds of our speech costs us the price of a fleet of battleships every year in writing and printing superfluous letters. The most civilized nation in the world, the Chinese, have taken our language in hand for business purposes and produced an English with a minimum of grammar...
This Council has led a unique but successful existence, with service calls, irregular elections, and heavily accelerated programs hindering its traditional flow of constructive effort. It is therefore disappointing that this final chapter end unfinished. But the problem of disposing of student furniture for the duration has not been solved, and hopes for a practical answer have been left dangling. Time is running out too rapidly to delay a decision. If neither the University not the Council can prove helpful, the undergraduates ought at least be informed promptly and be enabled to make other plans...
...Modern Art put on a huge, unusual show containing 270 mostly "unofficial" portraits (done usually for the artist's own pleasure, without commission). Visitors had a chance to see what some of the most talented painters alive do with portraiture when free to be as sincere, malicious, foolish, irregular or what not as they like. Items...
...time Rommel's lines were shattered, the three Partisan armies had joined forces, under a unified command, and re-christened themselves the "Army of National Liberation." They organized the first continuous front in this irregular war-an arc about 100 miles long running from Slunj to Sitnica-and moved westward, sweeping one village after another from the surprised Germans and the Fascist Ustachi...
This bacterial disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes enclosing the spinal cord and brain, flares up at irregular intervals, especially during wars. British cases soared from 1,500 in 1939 to a record 12,500 in 1940. In World War I the disease hit Army camps in the U.S., France and Britain. Relatively few (5,839) U.S. soldiers were stricken, but the disease gave Army doctors a disproportionate amount of trouble-as it is doing now. "Certain peculiarities of the disease-the apparent lack of interconnection between cases, the mysterious manner of spread .. . the ineffectiveness of control measures...