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Work for the BBC closely resembles a love affair with an elephant: the pleasure is nil, the danger of being crushed to pieces extreme, and in any case no results can be expected for nine years...
Some like it hot and some like it cold, but just about everybody ought to like "The More The Merrier" which is alternately both but always entertaining. The picture is nil if judged by any standards other than those of amusement; it has no particular message, nor do artistic criteria appear to enter in save to make the bits of humor more appetizing. But the picture is such a marvellous vehicle of entertainment that, especially during this particular period of the season, the tariff is more than repaid...
...forces in the Orient instead of running the hazards of having them sunk on the seas by enemy submarines. If we could carry the millions of tons by air across the Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, instead of shipping it on the high seas, the losses would be almost nil, and it would be carried there in hours instead of days or weeks...
...this year the demonstrated offensive power of the Red Army has been almost nil. One explanation may be that the Russians are deliberately conserving their real power for a better time, as they did in the weeks before the Germans reached Stalingrad's outskirts. If so, they have by choice passed up their opportunity to attack in full force on the central and northern fronts while the Wehrmacht's main strength is in the south. According to German reports, the Russians may be about to seize this opportunity. Until they do, only the Red Army's commanders...
...much. This means that total income for the summer session is at least as large as in the whole past academic year. Searching for a reason is more fruitless than trying to develop good crews at Yale. The wear and tear on equipment caused by calisthenics is absolutely nil, except for boxing gloves, and the instructors are mostly unpaid Mil Sci men. To say that furnishing a locker and towels costs the University three dollars is nothing short of ludicrous. Total income from the charges imposed on undergraduates is easily fourteen thousand dollars, without including the revenue from Army...