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While a U.S. baseball star pouted on a Florida beach because he did not consider $40,000 enough for one season's harrowing toil, sports-loving Britain last week officially restricted three well-loved sports-horse racing, dog racing, boxing. Purpose: a closer approach to total war effort. Some U.S. citizens, impatient with Coordinators of Bowling and Horseshoe Heaving (see p. 57), thought the U.S. might well follow suit...
...Here's to 1942. . . . Here's to a year of toil ... a year of struggle and peril.. . and a long step forward to victory...
...Maurice S. Friedman '43, 15 to 20 students of the various colleges travel weekly to some spot where their labors will be of assistance, forget for a while the intellectual college atmosphere in which they have been steeped, and get down to three or four hours of honest toil...
...scares. There had been press campaigns against Russia and against Britain, but this was different. The Japanese were told by their leaders that the U.S. sought to destroy them (see p. 27). They knew that now all the power they had wrung out of 47 years of blood and toil was at stake. With the weariness of a tired man about to be summoned to a task greater than his strength, the Japanese people waited...
...over now, all the sweating hours of toil, all the struggles "nd prayers, all the endless drilling on blocks, feints, and passes. Nothing is left to the 1941 football team but 30 hours of tense anticipation and 60 flying minutes of action...