Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, TIME has filled in a little chink for me. I thought that TIME might be interested in a little background...
...wish I had more space to sketch the special background of war which has seasoned each of our correspondents. Every one of these men knows that covering the news for TIME does not mean just duplicating the headline reports we get from our Associated Press wires...
General Hsiao did not rise as the enemy entered. In the background innumerable cups of tea were poured as the terms were outlined. When the enemy handed over a map showing the disposition of his 1,000,000 troops in China, General Hsiao's aides broke their imperturbability, crowded for a jubilant look...
Writing in the New York Times in September, 1940, shortly before the Seven Year Plan first went into effect, Dean Landis cited the disadvantages of college concentration for the Law student. To remedy the existing situation, which he said did not provide graduate students with a common background, Dean Landis proposed a "rearrangement of the existing relationship between the professional schools and the colleges...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...