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...work has taken its toll of astronomors. Shapley stated that four members of his staff, assigned to observing work at Bloemfontein, are in the South African Army. One was in Tobruk when the Axis captured the town and is believed to be a prisoner...
...period, while Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
...tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...more U.S. war correspondents lost their lives, a third was missing last week. Total toll since the war's start in 1939: dead, twelve; missing, three; wounded, more than 30. The two new deaths came at the end of a fast flight across the Atlantic, when the Yankee Clipper, swooping to a Lisbon landing, crashed into the wide, swift Tagus River estuary...
...Navy brought the toll up to date with an announcement of losses between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4. U.S.: the twelve-year-old 9,050-ton cruiser Chicago, the destroyer De Haven, three PT boats, 22 planes; Japan: two destroyers, four more probably sunk, 60 planes, plus eight more probables...