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...January 1942 the U.S. has its greatest supply of food in all history. A two-year store of wheat lies heavy in the big concrete granaries of Chicago and Minneapolis, in the steel bins, like sawed-off oil tanks, which dot the Midwestern countryside. Rude, slatted corn cribs groan from overloading as well as frost: the U.S. has enough corn for 18 months...
...this work it developed that the Greeks and Romans were actually Nordics -just as, when it later became convenient, Doktor Rosenberg pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...
...Middlewestern delegation to Harvard is composed of a queer lot. They are notorious for their adoption of Eastern manners, mores, and accents, and for their desertion of the rough, rude, vigorous, semi-savage tradition of their native central plains. And for 357 days in the year, their rep is well deserved. The sons of the Middle Border eschew the "r"s and the multi-colored clothing with which they have been born and bred and lean toward tweeds and martinis...
Behind this image he would see himself as he once was, when he was the terror of Tiflis-the face harder, no fat on it; the hair black, unkempt; the mouth more defiant. Those were the days when he, a rude Georgian lad, had, by touching Russian dirt and blood, become Russia itself...
...read in today's Crimson that two British sailors visited Harvard yesterday, and "ate dinner at Lowell House, received their first taste of American football." I grant that food at Lowell undoubtedly leaves much to be desired, but does it not seem rude to serve such a dish to our foreign visitors? Louis Vorhaus...