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Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win it and get home sooner...
Moppets will begin by learning to spell aeronautical words, working simple aviation problems in arithmetic, studying aviation maps and distances in geography class, etc. The social and economic implications of the air age will be examined in history and economics courses. Instruction in actual flying will begin as early as high school, and aircraft engineering will be taught as the program expands. The state will pay half the cost of four hours of flight instruction (at $8 an hour) for any aviation student who wants it. To speed the program, the University of Tennessee and several state colleges will give...
...dying men-dying, all of us and our institutions and our civilization, in the sins which have reached their appalling climax in the torture chambers of Europe's prison camps. [These] camps spell doom. But it is not simply the doom of the Nazis; it is the doom of man unless he can be brought to worship at the feet of the living...
With a rainy spell wiping out all sports encounters during the past few days. Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine lay idle Wednesday while chief "Crash" Davis's Jayvees made a futile trip to Andover. Both games were cancelled without any future date set for delaying them, but they probably will be rescheduled later, declared Carroll F. Getchell, acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association, yesterday...
Next, in a cave on the side of a hill overlooking the sea, Tweed felt "for the first time in over three months . . . that I had successfully eluded the Japs long enough to enjoy a breathing spell. . . . My cave was well concealed, and I was already turning over in my mind the ways in which I would make it more comfortable." With ingenuity and the help of an enterprising Chamorro he soon succeeded...