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These fluctuations have compelled the alteration of the entire structure of elementary Physics instruction. Under pre-war arrangements a student with a high school knowledge of the subject could take a two-year program of either Physics C and H or F and G. Now Physics F, G, and H have all been dropped...
...second period, the Varsity hockey team rallied in convincing form to defeat Princeton 5 to 2 in a game played at the Boston Skating Club last night. Thus a long losing streak came to a joyous conclusion, for the sextet's last League victory over the Bengals was in pre-war February...
...twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons (plus Norway's two millions), was already torpedoed into an oil shortage. Now the U.S., with some 3,000,000 tanker tons, may feel an oil pinch...
...result. That was partly their own fault, because of the pyramiding effect of their "replacement-cost" pricing policy. This time they have done their best to keep the retail lid on. Their concerted policy of averaging costs has thus far kept retail prices to around 20% above their pre-war level v. an overall wholesale-price increase...
Probably all of the present class are college graduates, according to Captain K. C. McIntosh, who is in charge of the course. Except for about 75 who are regular officers of the Navy or members of the old pre-war reserve, the class is composed of men who have come fresh from college...