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...acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses and barns the insects were...
Last week the National Airline Pilots Association lost its last shred of patience, fired an ultimatum in the form of a letter to the Bureau of Air Commerce. The letter demanded that the Washington Airport be designated a "two-way" field, which would reduce it to the emergency or auxiliary class. The pilots declared that after 60 days they would not land heavy, high-speed planes unless the wind were favorable for using the long runway, and that they were "seriously considering" a refusal to use the field under any circumstances...
...Walsh and Dr. Sweezy in the Economics Department, and in arriving at the decision that the terms of the two men were not brought to a close because of prejudice or bias on the part of the University, the Student Council has put a stop to what ever shred of doubt might still remain in the public mind. The council's action shows clear beyond cavil that academic freedom has not been violated, and that the men have been cut off because of the general conditions of promotion that prevail with in the College. So far as Dr. Walsh...
...opening umpires are to be chosen by the A.A. from a list of officials approved by the New England Conference of Colleges, just as in hockey, basketball, and other minor sports. Hence-forth, then, the cry of unfairness and preconceived bias cannot be levelled at the umpires with any shred of justice or right...
...antithesis of Actor Gielgud, Actor Howard robs Hamlet of every shred of dignity and nobility: by being peevish with Polonius' garrulity instead of simply bored; by being quizzical when he means to be sardonic; by indicating neither method in his madness nor madness in his methods; by delivering most of his soliloquies while loping about the stage and peering under the furniture; by failing at any point to convince the audience it is watching anything more than Leslie Howard walking through a part. Unanimously, metropolitan critics found star and production remarkably unexciting, agreed with the Post's scholarly...