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Curtain Raiser. At the very least, it will take the financial collaboration of the British Commonwealth and the U.S., on terms that can include others, to bridge the gap between immediate relief and long-term investment and to set the stage on which long-term investment can safely tread. This is the object of the tentative proposals of a group of British experts headed by Lord Keynes (TIME, April 5) and of somewhat similar proposals by a U.S. Treasury committee headed by Under Secretary Dr. Harry D. White (TIME, April 19). These proposals are in turn the subject of several...
Harvard, it is fitting that this should be. I have no longer the single eye, the courage, to tread your walks. You belong to this new generation as surely as you belonged to me. You are theirs by the right of service, the same right by which you were mine. In serving them you serve me, and there is no other...
Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
...with determination, but it has not yet concluded the debate on the objectives of the war which Pearl Harbor interrupted. . . . Much of the discussion has been far below the lofty vein of Vice President Wallace. . . . Isolationism . . . has again reared its head; there is real fear that the country will tread the same path...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...