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Word: barringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On its assignment to write an industrial peace treaty, the conference was getting nowhere. Barring a miracle-by a group of men who had proved to be in no mood to perform one-it would soon fold up without offering the American public anything except its regrets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble at the Table | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

¶ Said the Rev. Francis J. Connell, a professor at the Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of a "supernational state" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Fate Closing In | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REPORT ON CHINA | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Big Three pressure on Franco began when Russia insisted on a place at the Tangier conference, but refused to sit down with representatives of Fascist Spain. Spain was excluded. Next came the Russian-initiated Big Three agreement at Potsdam barring Franco's Government from the United Nations organization. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Squeeze on Franco | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

The Emergency Council struck back by barring distribution of all copies of the Jester to which were not stapled a mimeographed letter expounding the Emergency Council's position and deprecating the stand of the humor magazine. This act, along with that of the student government in naming the editors of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spec Staff Quits, Hits Dean's Action | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

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