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...move was made by Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the Foreign Relations Committee, after Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va., had advocated invocation of the Senate's most drastic weapon--cloture--to shorten the discussion and after oppositionists had been denounced from the floor as aiding the Axis cause by delaying a final vote...
...want is a short, clear creed, acceptable to the decent common man everywhere, that will act like a trumpet call. Then we must proclaim it everywhere. ... If we fought with ideas as well as weapons, we should not only help to construct a world worth living in, but also shorten...
Besides revising its calendar, Brown will further shorten the time needed for secondary and higher education by accepting high school Juniors of exceptional standing for the Freshman class...
Many of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in teaching offered by the Graduate School of Education can be anticipated in undergraduate work, and the student "can thus substantially shorten the necessary period of graduate study," according to Dean Francis C. Spaulding...
...tissues. Sobisminol also works as a prophylactic. Taken daily for at least three weeks, it protects against syphilitic infection after the first week. But Dr. Hanzlik does not promise complete cures on the basis of sobisminol alone. He and other investigators believe its role for the present is to shorten and minimize the course of injections...