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...more summer study cards receive serious attention, center in the scientific branches of instruction. Premedical students lament their inability to complete requirements as hopefully planned. Physics, biology, and chemistry majors air grievances of conflicting lab and lecture hours, and of irreconcilable examination groups. The uninitiated to curricular complexities moan because the catalogue is too thin, if for no other reason...
...trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...
...signal came that night. There was the moan of aircraft in the moonlit night, bombs began to rain on the enemy's position. For half an hour shells screamed overhead, throwing up a bright light of flame when they landed...
...nature lay for me a bed On grassy meadow, field or stone; Let me hold up an unbowed head, Outranking those who shrink and moan...
...moan of doves in immemorial elms drowns out the faint echo of World War II, Authoress Thirkell seems to say hat while her Marling gentry may be vague and snobbish, they are good people o depend on in a crisis that never really comes. With a few comedy feathers stuck in an old hat, she leads the Marlings' stately stroll through the outskirts of war, leaves them peering absently toward the uknown tomorrow...