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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Panorama by Candlelight | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...brothers' minds-the one strangled by disillusion and alcohol, the other frustrated and disgusted by the shallow halfheartedness of dubious humanitarianism. Interjecting themselves among these struggles are the brothers' tangled feelings for Yvonne, in which love, brotherly loyalty, hope crushed by fatal exhaustion and pessimism add to their already tortured consciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man In Eruption | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort, but if you're not, it will probably just add up to an awfully long three hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

Today is the last day on which undergraduates (except new students who entered Colleges in February) may change, drop or add course without a $5 fine. Petitions must be filed in person at University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Day for Course Changes | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...first place contention. They will face a team that has not lost on its own ice since 1940 and that boasts a potent attack led by forwards Bruce Cunliffe and Bruce Mather. Their renowned hard-checking defensive duet of George Pilliam and Soup Campbell, and goalle Dick Desmond will add to coach Johnny Chase's difficulties, as well as the fact that the first 12 of Eddie Jeremiah's Varsity performers are returning lettermen...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

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