Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese were grateful. The ammunition would not win the civil war, but it would help. The Chinese Government hoped that Washington was about to see the logic of a larger proposition: that Nanking needed whatever it took to win the civil war and begin the reconstruction of China...
...Harvard Liberal Union will begin its summer term activities Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House Common Room with a discussion of "What Can Be Done with the Germans," it was announced yesterday by Allan Barton '45, HLU spokesman...
...limits. The field of free inquiry, then, must by its nature oppose a mentality which presumes to pass on a man's right to an education in accordance with its whims about his "company." Plainly, the danger of the unchallenged witch hunt is that it can quite conceivably begin defining as ineligible Communist soreheads all students it considers in any way "difficult"--from pacifists to students who support a larger allotment, or who simply protest energetically the allocation of Yale game tickets. Possibly the most pathetic figure of this situation would be the Congressman who voted for the bill...
...wasn't a picnic at Walden Pond, though, but a tour of Cambridge and Boston bookstores. The 52 enrollees in a six-week intensive course in shorthand and typewriting begin taking dictation today from Mrs. Harold Quinlan of the Boston Catherine Gibbs secretarial school...
...perfervid about getting into it now, the Committee's ideas seem sound. Some of these ideas are old, familiar, yet supremely important--that there is no defense against atomic weapons; that if by a mutual, unspoken agreement we simply abandon the idea of world government, we must logically begin an immediate preventive war; that the possession of bomb piles by states moving in terms of classic nationalism must also mean...