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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison of the times revealed that Tech's Freshman wonder-crew had beaten the time of its own Varsity, and was "just plain good," as the Yardlings...
Carolina Craters. Like the moon, the coastal plain of South Carolina and nearby States is pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
...Professor Johnson conceived the idea that the craters might once have been made by huge artesian springs now dried up. Long ago, when the Atlantic Coastal Plain first rose above sea level, there was as yet no surface drainage system to tap underground waters. Instead, the water bubbled up through the sandy soil. To test his theory, Professor Johnson re-explored the Carolina craters and found startling confirmation: old wave marks and runoff channels which geologists never noticed while they were blinded by a false hypothesis...
Correspondent Young lived in Japan 13 years. He doesn't live there any more. One day in January 1940, Correspondent Young answered a smart rap on his door. Outside was a Japanese plain-clothes cop who invited him to visit police headquarters for a brief conversation. There the police took away Young's shoes. "You are not going anywhere," they said. To William T. Turner of the U.S. Embassy, who accompanied Young, they shouted: "The American Embassy people are fools. Get out of here!" But Jimmy Young did not get out for two months. Most of that time...
...this, Straegy of the Americas is a valuable book. It presents many of the best arguments and most of the facts of the isolation-minded. It is a healthy antidote to the uncertainty and plain rumor-mongering current in so much of the discussion by the man-in-the-street. Above all, it may prove a last encouraging refuge if the day comes when America stands alone. Thoroughly understood in its fatal deficiencies as preacher of one decision, it should do much good as a factual background for any decision...