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After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
...against Japan. Last week Prime Minister Attlee promised to wage it without stint...
...Admiral has fought in five big & little wars and served his nation without stint. In 1938, turning his cold eyes straight on the Axis powers, with whom the U.S. was then at peace, he had told the House Naval Affairs Committee: "In defending our territory in war, we cannot assume an attitude of passive defense." A year later he told Congress bluntly that the best reason for building bigger battleships was that other nations were building them. He long ago saw the inevitability of another...
Effects of alcohol and drugs on mental efficiency are being computed in another section of the Fatigue Laboratory. Several of the drugs, incidentally, have been found stimulating; not so, the alcohol. A two hour stint at an instrument called the targetometer is guaranteed to produce mental fatigue in even the most alert...
Before the contest got under way, Stahl's squad elected center Mike Keene as captain for the remainder of this season. In his first year at the College Keene starred for the Freshman team. Returning from a stint in the army with a medical discharge, Keene is the only civilian in the starting lineup...