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Immediately after the start of the war, educators were worried lent there be a repetition of the chaotic 1918-1919 system of granting blanket credit on a basis of total time in the service. During those years, colleges throughout the nation vied with each other in giving such credit, and thousands of failures resulted...
During Spain's civil war Andorra was disturbed by Republican refugees but, with the aid of an army of seven mobile guardsmen lent to Andorra by the President of France, order was maintained and neutrality defended. Last week the Andorrans may well have wondered whether any country could be small enough to escape the rapacity of Adolf Hitler...
Some had been borrowed from U.S. museums and private collections. Many had never been seen in the U.S. before. Others, like The Milkmaid (owned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), had been sent originally to the New York World's Fair. One jewellike Domestic Scene by Jan Steen was lent by King George of England, reached the U.S. by bomber. The 70 masterpieces, insured for $5,000,000, represented one of the most valuable art hoards of its size ever assembled in a private gallery...
...Shipping Control Committee, along with Brother Frederick. From there the Brothers Gibbs launched out into the field of ship designing, finally set up an office on lower Broadway. Some years later they formed a partnership with Daniel Hargate Cox, well-known yacht designer. Mr. Cox lent luster then. Now 70-year-old Mr. Cox's forte is no longer the firm's mainstay. He is now busy with Navy maintenance work. Business head of the firm is still Frederick...
Those officers now training at Harvard have been sent here to use facilities which the College has lent the Army and Navy. The undergraduate daring this war is still in mufti, and since it is the preference of the armed forces to bring training under its own jurisdiction rather than leaving it to "amateur military training." it is very unlikely that Harvard in the year 1942-43 will become the armed student camp...