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...loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
Chamber War, a scene of furious activity, in which a billowing nurse is shown attacking three big-bellied doctors with a bedpan, while a skeleton embraces the terrified patient...
...there is to know," says the report in discussing the liberal education, "the liberally educated man should at least know what there is to know. He should strive to arrive at the state where more knowledge is merely a matter of facts to be added to an already attained skeleton of understanding." An "a la carte" selection of courses will no more provide the general picture of all knowledge necessary for a well-rounded education than an over concentration in one particular field...
...League of Nations still carries on in Geneva with a skeleton staff. Reported the New York Times last week: "Some 700 periodicals are classified and read on reception. . . . The health services supply 'friend or foe' a weekly report on impending bacillus invasion threats...