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Periodic tests will winnow the unfit, return them to the ranks. The colleges, not the armed forces, will prepare most of the courses and set examinations according to their individual standards. Terms of study for apprentice seamen will range between eight months (aviators) and four years (chaplains, doctors, dentists). Both Army and Navy programs include some liberal arts subjects...
...farmers got what they asked for. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., Private John V. Prochaska, 210th Coast Artillery, packed his barracks bag, slung it over a khaki shoulder, waved good-by to his battery. Monroe County's only threshing-machine owner and operator had a 30-day furlough to winnow the grain for his home county...
Phidias used Pentelic marble, but modern sculptors have a substance still whiter (and easier) to carve: Ivory Soap. In distributing $2,200 worth of Procter & Gamble prizes this week, in the 17th annual soap-sculpture competition, the jury-which included Paul Manship and William Zorach-had to winnow 4,500 entries...
...Spot. For the next few days the chief problem of correspondents was to winnow truth from fable in untold rumors (flourishing in Sweden in particular) of expeditions, battles, disasters...
...nothing compared to the blasting force of the government, especially when the seats of power are held by men like Minton and Hague and Black, men whose ideas of government point to a Nazi form of state. In the complexity of modern life it is hard to winnow the chaff from the whet, and it is an important function for Harvard to teach her sons the art of thinking for themselves...