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Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
...America is a part of the universe. This fact must be recognized at the outset in any competent analysis of the situation. In a universe governed by rules of intercontinental morality, America will be at peace; in a universe ravaged by ruthless aggressors, no home, no family, no child will be safe. This stand must be fearlessly taken...
...outset of the Japanese invasion of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek saw that he had millions of men who might line up the sights of a rifle but only thousands who could read a newspaper. Realizing that China would be in graver need of bright men after than brave men during the war, he requested students to stay in school and college. Consequently, in China's 13 U. S.-aided colleges,* enrollment remained within 1,800 of normal capacity. In the U. S. last week, the National Emergency Committee for Christian Colleges in China announced that an emergency fund...
Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change...
...outset, Generalissimo Francisco Franco received enough planes from Germany and Italy to down enemy aviation, to facilitate his 3½-months' drive to Madrid. Then the aerial tide turned. In October and November 1936, Russian planes of the American Boeing type- nicknamed "chatos" (snub-nosed) by Madrilenians-had arrived in such numbers that in the following two months Leftists eliminated the fierce aerial bombing of Madrid, stopped two strong Rightist offensives. Then early this year, Franco's augmented air force blasted a bloody path for his march to the sea, splitting Leftist territory in two this spring...