Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Sunday, the 9th through Tuesday, the 11th will come a pre-exam "reading period" (no classes), during which beer will flow freely at the club (not gratis, but like water). Final exams come Wednesday, the 12th through Saturday, the 15th. Then, an inter-term recess of three days (16th, 17th, and 18th) when, we hope, the travel ban will be lifted so that we may see what's happened to the Big City since last time we saw Jamaica...
...Truman Committee was too busy to celebrate. In its 16th month of war, the U.S. had still not digested some of war's first readers. The first annual Truman report, with its shocking evidence of all-around bungling (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942), had not spelled the end of bungling. This week the Committee worked on its second annual report, which would have to recite much the same story, chastise many of the same men, pose some of the same old problems. How big should the Army be? How could the manpower tangle be solved? Where would the nation...
Peril in the North. The Soviet High Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
When a child is accepted by the school, his parents legally bind themselves not to withdraw him before his 16th birthday. Books and games are provided free, but pupils must buy their own school uniforms. Boys wear grey suits and navy blue caps ringed with the green & red school colors. Girls wear white, square-necked blouses, navy-blue pleated skirts, felt hats. In warm weather they change to green cotton frocks and striped blazers...
...been in no hurry to return home from Casablanca. After the ten-day conference was over he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill drove 150 miles to the ancient city of Marrakech, with its grove of palm trees at the foot of the snow-topped Atlas Mountains, with its musty 16th-Century tombs and its square, where snake charmers, jugglers and native dancers perform in the afternoons...