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...drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work that the Transall would provide. And there was a further international consideration; by buying Rolls-Royce engines for its Transall, the Germans hope to lessen Britain's foreign-exchange problems in maintaining British troops on the Rhine...
...read abstracts of important papers to be delivered. He, and other medical reporters, also benefited from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them. And so, from California, Cant cabled four stories-a controversy over freezing the stomach to lessen ulcer pains, the results of a remarkable Red Chinese surgical operation, the use of a pump to relieve a diseased heart, and a bowel operation to lower the blood's content of cholesterol. These stories, edited and checked in New York, are on top of the week's medical...
...would hardly be fair to call James Bryant Conant's new book a disappointment. The Education of American Teachers tackles its subject directly but without emotion. It gives no quarter in recommending changes that would irritate vested interests or lessen their power. And when it advocates compromise or seeks a middle way it does so not to avoid controversy but to promote cooperation; for Conant strongly believes that teacher training belongs neither to professional educators nor to academicans but to both, and to the public whom they serve...
...mitigating factors do lessen the impact of last week's results, however. Harvard had split its best team up between two regattas, and bad weather combined with tricky winds fouled the Crimson sailors up badly. Besides, last Sunday was October thirteenth...
...proposal to fill the light courts of the library with study facilities would greatly lessen the overcrowding. Although the Widener family has consented to the plan, all of the necessary funds have not yet been secured and it will be at least two years before building is completed...