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...Navy would probably suspend all work on heavy units to free skilled labor for the production of destroyers, submarines and planes. The Navy is preparing to add many a cruiser in the 10,000-12,000-ton classes. Following the German lead, it intends to give them a much stiffer wallop than they have...
Harvard's 3 to 31 loss to Wesleyan in basketball Saturday night at Middletown, Connecticut, may be just the kick in the pants that the Crimson hoop squad needs to wake it up if it expects to salvage even a few games this season when the competition gets stiffer...
...British at British air schools in the U.S. whip R.A.F. candidates through in 20 weeks. The R.A.F. plan is now in effect in six British flying schools, located in Oklahoma (2), Florida, Texas, California and Arizona, and last week's graduates all emerged from them. The stiffer course of the Army Air Corps will begin producing graduate pilots for Britain by next January...
Equivalent to a second Freshman team, the most highly organized of the intramural sports is the tackle football team, which can be the jumping-off place for a higher team, or can merely satisfy the player who wants the stiffer competition provided by House teams or outside schools...
...Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date. Earlier the Nazis had requested the recall of the Mexican Vice Consul in Paris and had closed honorary consular offices in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, but Mexico's reprisal was stiffer than bargained...