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From the Lend-Lease standpoint, the American troops in the China-Burma-Indian theater are deeply indebted to the British...
From a political standpoint, or that of a shrewd bargainer, this concern for the taxpayer seemed sound. But as an overall policy for getting Government plants into private hands this had to be weighed along with other considerations...
From the U.S. and British standpoint, casualties alone do not win a war and the point is to win. They know more about Axis military and industrial strength than they do about secretive Russia's. They cannot get the use of Russian air bases for bombing raids like the one on the Ploesti oilfield-which could have been made from Russian soil with a shorter flight and heavier bomb loads...
Last Sunday's program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...