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...Stride. The orders cut to the very heart of daily life; but,by & large the people took them in stride (although no one laughed when 21 oil and gas cars were derailed near Springfield, Ill.). No one looked for complete enforcement of the pleasure-driving ban. After the first day there were surprisingly few violators, but OPA investigators who swarmed over the streets and highways got elaborate excuses. Some direct results of the order...
Sporting a brighter shade of Red than the Crimson could offer, a tall, rugged, fast-breaking Cornell team that finally seems to have hit its stride outclassed the Varsity basketball team Saturday night in the Indoor Athletic Building with Harvard bowing 49-34 in their first League start of the season...
Most observers felt that the home team played one of its poorer games Saturday night. The fast pace kept up by Cornell seemed to throw Harvard off stride; and capitalizing on Crimson mistakes and with all-Eastern Intercollegiate League forward, Sam Hunter, gobbling up rebounds from the backboards, they won handily...
...Marines had attacked in the Solomons, and the Navy had tragically lost the first rounds at sea when Admiral King said in Ohio at Lorain (where he was born 64 years ago), and at Cleveland: "It's going to be a long war. We will really hit our stride in about a year's time. . . . Our two-ocean Navy is not yet in service. The smaller ships for it will begin to come into service around Thanksgiving or Christmas. The plain fact is we haven't the tools. Some of our critics would have us do everything...
...super-optimist and conclude that [this] is the beginning of the end. It is only another great stride forward in our part of the war. Our great advance guard overseas must be followed by a great main body-or else...