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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

>Skirts range from a conservative two inches below the knee to a little above it, which Vassarites "seem to love." Duke and Purdue reported no above-the-knee skirts at all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Information Please costs Canada Dry about $10,000 a week. Biggest piece of this budget ($5,400) goes for air time on 60 NBC-Blue network stations. The expert Big Three get something like $450 an appearance, Interlocutor Fadiman, $750 (before Canada Dry came along they all got $40 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

To celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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