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...system provides a sure-fire check lest any boy be picked to enter Harvard purely on his reputation as an athlete, especially if he is trying for a scholarship...
...cannot be stressed too often, wrote the New York Times's Raymond Daniell from London last week, that these raids sometimes cause damage to military objectives. . . . Such damage is subject to censorship, it should be remembered, lest an erroneous impression be gained that only hospitals and churches are being bombed...
Delicately he flicked old sores, lest Labor forget them "You can remember when it was rare indeed for an employer even to consider collective bargaining with his workers," the President intoned; "when it was common practice to discharge any worker who joined a union." Carefully he recalled the practices of calling out armed troops to put down strikes, of hiring labor spies, keeping private company arsenals on hand. But those things, he told his listeners, changed with the New Deal...
...their main attack on Britain, the Germans used their superior numbers to keep the R. A. F. constantly on the go, with "nuisance" raiders over Britain at all hours. A lot of their night flights were evidently for training, for extra pilots baled out of many planes brought down. Lest their morale be affected by repeated rebuffs from the defense rings around London, watchful agents of the Gestapo rode in many of the Luftwaffe's formations. R. A. F. called them "German governesses" and took special delight when they were shot down...
Suppressed in France and also in Germany lest it endanger the Franco-German relations of 1933, the Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich collected dust on Poet Thomasset's bookshelf while its author continued to dream and prune his vines. At the time of the Austrian Anschluss he hoisted a swastika over his chateau, greeted his neighbors with the only German words he had ever learned: "Heil Hitler...