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...will keep green the memories of these young soldier-heroes, who have given . . . their lives to the cause of freedom. Homes are bereft and friends saddened, but the grief should be mitigated by the consciousness that to die for one's country is not to have lived in vain...
Ladies, Please! Rich or poor, black or white, married or single, women were so eager to sign up that many went without breakfast. Bosses waited in vain for secretaries, nurses arrived late and breathless at hospitals, dishes went unwashed and floors unswept. Some housewives had plans complete for Junior to stay with Grandma for the duration. One mother and daughter would not give their names for fear, Papa would find out. A Washington girl had just accompanied her boy friend to the Marines' recruiting office. A Philadelphia girl would not let photographers take her picture lest her sister find...
Doriot's claim, as Vichy had tried in farcical vain to prove at the discontinued Riom war-guilt trial, was that France-far from having been sabotaged by stupid militarists and demagogues of his own changeable colorations -had been "be trayed" by democratic leaders. A bomb tossed at him on April 20 had missed its mark. Frenchmen read into his Bayonne speech not only The Great's reply to the bombing but a new bid for power...
Determined that their English A training shall not go for naught, undergraduates have been straining their mentalities in search of original expressions of love and gratitude for mother. That their efforts are not in vain is shown by the telegraph office manager's statement that Harvard me far surpass the average telegram-writer in ingenuity...
...American Council of Learned Societies, which is in charge of this big job, has found a new popularity. After having spent 15 years and $65,000 in a vain effort to interest Americans in Oriental languages, it now has a new appropriation of $100,000 and some willing students. The Council found 500 missionaries, teachers and businessmen who knew Far Eastern languages, but many had only a speaking acquaintance. So the Council offered scholarships and subsidies to universities to start courses. Its intensive courses have already begun or are scheduled to begin this summer at nine universities (principally at Yale...