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...breakdown of casualties showed that relative to the number of men employed in the three services the Army was the safest place to be: Army: 7,879 killed, 19,610 wounded, 743 missing, 5,482 died of wounds or diseases, 40,450 captured (not including Crete -perhaps 10,000 captured, perhaps 5,000 killed...
...will have to get into the safest place you can find and stay there until the battle is over. . . . This also applies to people inland if a considerable number of parachutists . . . are landed. . . . Above all, they must not cumber the roads. . . . It may easily be some weeks before the invader has been totally destroyed...
...every opportunity ; to pick a lock; to quiet watchdogs; to box; to speak French. He learned also that prison clothes save wear & tear on your own; that a good-looking overcoat, though it puts off benefactors, also puts off police; that trickery, to succeed, must be simple; that the safest places for exiles are churches, museums and police stations; that an exile has three wars to fight, for food, for shelter, and against idle time; that the subtlest of his enemies is time...
...Several scientists protested that the U.S. people are now becoming foolish vitamin cranks. Said Conrad Arnold Elvehjem of the University of Wisconsin: "The safest program ... is to rely upon the common foods we have been . . . eating rather than attempting the production of cheap, synthetic substitutes...
...scientific laws of inheritance, which had their genesis in the Moravian sweet pea garden of pious Monk Gregor Mendel, are more & more often appealed to when sordid cases reach U. S. courts. Last week, in the Scientific Monthly, Dr. Alexander S. Wiener described the newest and safest tools of the courtroom geneticist...