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...History Faculty will in time have shrunk by 10 per cent. No one will be fired, but vacancies will not be refilled; and some men will take half or full year leaves of absence without pay. There will be no changes in instruction, except that History 1 next year will have one less section...
...first sting of winter hung over a dying city on the Soochow mud flats last week. Its International Settlement had been under Japanese military domination since August. Its tide of fleeing foreigners had reached flood last month with the evacuation of U. S. citizens; its foreign colony had shrunk to a scattering of bitter-enders: U. S. taipans unwilling to leave. White Russians and anti-Nazi refugees unable to leave, British nationals who had no place...
Yale started lightweight football ten years ago, as a sort of Bill of Rights for students who were too light for the varsity. They got some hand-me-down uniforms that had shrunk in cleaning, got Medical Student Herb Miller (who had just hung up his cleats) to teach them some varsity tricks, got Choate, Roxbury and other nearby prep schools to play against them. Then Princeton organized a 150-lb. team. Rutgers, Penn, Lafayette, Villanova followed. The six formed a league,* arranged a round-robin schedule. The late Foster Sanford, onetime Yale footballer and later Rutgers coach...
...Pile's box barrage was a measure of desperation. Such heavy fire could not be long maintained. The average anti-aircraft gun of the 3.7-and 4.5-inch types used by Britain can fire about 300 rounds, then it must be dismantled and its liner shrunk, removed, replaced. London could not possibly muster more than 5,000 antiaircraft guns (including machine guns), and if the 400,000 rounds claimed in one night were actually fired, the Tommies were shooting the guts out of their guns. Neutral observers thought the slackening of German attack in the face of this barrage...
...forbids U. S. sale of securities of governments defaulting to the U. S. Government. Meanwhile Morgan partners were retiring, dying; from the partnership their heirs drew millions for inheritance and inheritance taxes. By last year's end the House of Morgan's capital funds (net worth) had shrunk from $118,604,000 to $39,156,000. Of its $671,519,000 assets, 61.5% consisted of tax-free government bonds, of which only 4.5% was out working for U. S. industry...