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India's editors stood it as long as they could, in late December decided to stage last week's hartal. They also decided to refuse to print, thenceforth, any unnewsworthy British handouts or the speeches of any British statesmen. On New Year's Day they failed to publish such routine news as Britain's annual "honors list." Although the British-owned Indian papers did not participate, they sympathized; the Calcutta Statesman offered Indian-owned papers "our good will and . . . mediation...
...World War II. Its tone would set the tone for the others to come. How could the U.S. Government, opponent of Fascism, exponent of the Atlantic Charter, explain this? Was not freedom to come in the wake of the Americans? If Norway were invaded, would the U.S. thenceforth move to strengthen the hand of Vidkun Quisling...
Many people are allergic or sensitive to chemicals such as turpentine, T.N.T., formaldehyde, fulminate of mercury, picrates, synthetic dyes, etc. Slight exposure to them is often harmless, but prolonged exposure or a sudden "overdose" may cause the worker to become sensitized, so that thenceforth even slight exposure produces eruptions or scaliness on his hands, arms, face, body. In one summer half the workers in a Pennsylvania plastics factory had dermatitis when they became sensitized to the formaldehyde in the material...
...crack Zero fighter, reduced its performance to ten or eleven categories (climb, speed, firepower, etc.). Beside that record he set the performance of the old P-40, decided the P-40 was superior in two or three categories. He concentrated on these categories, and no A.V.G. man thenceforth tried to compete with the Zero except in power plays Chennault laid out for his ships...
...years before World War I, at Castle Duino in Austria, he was brusquely, briefly seized by inspiration of a blinding ferocity. While it held him he began those Duino Elegies which he thenceforth regarded as the crowning work of his life. But with the war, apathy shut over him. "A born noncombatant," he mainly vegetated in Munich, more & more dependent on the friendship of ladies, writing letters (TIME, June 10, 1940) which combine elegance with self-pity. In the War Ministry, his job was to rule lines on to pay-sheets, "a duty he discharged with meticulous neatness, clad...