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Those Harvard men who died fighting with the Allies helped win a great victory of right over wrong, else they died in vain. If war can ever prove anything it proves that the Harvard men who died with the Central Powers were defending a wrong for which they never should have taken up arms at all. Germany and her associated Powers were all wrong from the very start else the war they fought must be classed as wholesale murder...
...Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that "Woodman Spare That Tree" seemed almost a presentable fragment of verse. But in late years the Hapsburgs have fallen, the Vagabond has gotten too old for travel, and Vienna is now a dissected corpse which communist interns try in vain to assemble...
Both the Mayor of Cardington and the Vicar protested that they had no authority to remove the noxious, disintegrating mass. But not in vain were Buffalo protests. Last week it was reported that the Air Ministry had cleaned up the mess...
...biting cold, improvising repairs, and raced home next day to Associated Press and Paramount News with first news pictures of the Viking disaster (TIME, March 23 and 30). From the other plane, a Sikorsky amphibian, ice-wise Bernt Balchen and two companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that...
Laggard's Withdrawal, Far behind the great motor companies, partially obscured by their dust, the laggards of the industry in vain attempt to overtake their competitors. Last week one of these laggards drew to a halt, abandoned the race. Stockholders of Gardner Motor Co. Inc. were asked to approve the complete liquidation of their company...