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...battleship is still the backbone of the fleet. It occupies the same position in the navy an infantry unit does in the army. Recent wars have shown that bombing civilian populations from the air is useless from a purely strategical standpoint...
...case, the fact cannot be circumscribed that the Fund has misplaced the stamp of Harvard officialdom on a charity which, from an educational standpoint, obviously concerns only a small piece of the University...
...three). Mrs. Moore was agitated about the Massachusetts police who raided and closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings in that same city 245 years...
...such was the Conference's purpose President Roosevelt will soon be invited to apply the U. S. Neutrality Act. More important from the Japanese standpoint, it would permit Japan to carry her unofficial blockade of the Chinese Coast to the point of searching neutral ships for contraband...
From a saleable standpoint, however, officials observed that the gold content of the objects stolen would amount to only $200 at the most...