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...from smaller vessels and deliver it, through the jugular, back to the heart. The twins had only one. There was no way to divide it, no way to make another. One baby had to get it, and with it, a good chance to survive. The other must almost certainly perish. Little Rodney had the better chance to live, anyway, so the vein...
...general, however, is neither politico nor businessman. Turned loose amid the sharp-eyed denizens of the commercial world, he would probably perish miserably, the victim of his own rigid honesty, faith in his fellow man, and his instinct to command or be commanded. He is a man who is perfectly willing to be shot if logic or honor demands-or to order thousands to their deaths-and does not fall easily into compromise. Even Lem Shepherd's small eccentricities are uncompromisingly military...
...navy ceased to be a power in the Pacific. Through the fall of Singapore to the Battle of the Coral Sea, Australia became acutely aware of her isolated geographical position and, in the face of Asia's agitated masses, her own lack of people. "We must populate or perish," sloganed Arthur Calwell, the Labor government's Immigration Minister. "We must double or quit," wrote Liberal Leader R. G. Casey. At war's end the opposition political parties were agreed on one point: large-scale immigration. In the past six years 700,000 Europeans-including 165,000 D.P.s-have...
...this ground. Conant only dug himself in deeper when he stated that the decision was reached solely "on the basis of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Since both the men were known as excellent teachers, undergraduates raised a hue and cry about the University's policy of "publish or perish." A Student Council investigation placed the blame on the University's over-emphasis on publishing as a requirement for permanent tenure. At an alumni meeting H. V. Kaltenborn '10, attacked Conant for his "neglect of the social sciences...
...proclamation aroused a storm of protest throughout the country. "Let Locarno fall and the League of Nations perish," cried the usually staid New York Times, "but the Big Three must and shall be preserved." Even the bad boy of the whole affair, Lampy, upon seing the results of his work broke down and apologized. But outside of the IC4A track meet Harvard and Princeton did not meet again that year...