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...hands-across-the-sea propaganda it has produced since outbreak of the war. Answering You is a kind of international Information Please, with questions supplied by U.S. citizens, answers by a British board of experts. Garbled by sunspots its first time out, Answering You finally hit its stride this week. Formidable was the job of British wizards who undertook to outline Britain's war aims, answer, with appropriate deletion of profanity, such queries as: "Why the hell doesn't England bomb Berlin...
...Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...
...about 6. In all children, the onset of adolescence causes a tremendous physical strain. From the age of 13 on, the physical efficiency of women does not increase, may even decline. Girls of 18 were exhausted by the 600-yard run, although children of 6 took it in their stride. The physical efficiency of boys continues to rise after 13 but at a much slower rate than before. "An important biologic hint: during puberty, unnecessarily strenuous activities such as rigid drill . . . must be avoided...
Making a desperate attempt to hit their stride after the devastating appearance they made against the Tigers Saturday, the Varsity baseball team will journey to Hanover to meet the Dartmouth Indians in the second of a two-game home-and-home series today...
...with the favored Bull taking the lead from Bob Jay on the second lap. Jay clung to his heels throughout the next six turns and on the final back stretch made his bid. They ran the stretch neck-and-neck but at the fast curve Bull's long, smooth stride wore down his opponent and Bull cut the string ten yards ahead...