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That politics is everybody's business in war as well as peace is the basic assumption of the new Harvard Forum. With speakers of the Conant, Hershey, Ingersoll, Hillman calibre as the feature attraction, the Forum could do much to widen the horizon of student interest in public affairs...
...satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...
...this was bitter return for the cost: 500,000 men immobilized on the Eastern Front. Half of these men might have turned the scale in the West. Military experts are of the opinion that only a few cavalry divisions would have been necessary to widen the gap in the Allied line in April 1918, so that general retreat would have been inevitable; there were then three cavalry divisions occupied in occupying the Ukraine...
...Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania '11) arrived in the U.S. from London, where he had been Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, en route to Chungking, where he will be China's new Foreign Minister, the U.S. moved to widen them...
...individual superiority of the British soldier; 2) the fact that the Italians made the desert their enemy (i.e., shut themselves up in Maginot-like forts), while the British made it their ally. From North Africa the footloose Colonel went to Athens, where he found the British laying plans to widen their front. The Greeks were frightened of too much British aid, thought it would provoke the Germans. Colonel Donovan interrupted his stay in Athens to pay a call on Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...