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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most telling blow to the reeling Democrats was the breakdown of their big-city machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Crack-Up | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Only a few days after the breakdown of their no-advertising clause, the Newspaper PM offered another breach when the Dramatic Club slipped in their pages. Other papers checked off the Shwartz scoreboard were the New York sun and Telegram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over-Baring Puts HDC Production Into Front Pages | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

When a nation and a continent are sick at soul, it may sometimes happen that some seemingly irrelevant incident, some senseless isolated instance of violence or stupidity, serves better than acres of learned analysis to yield a bright flash of insight into the breakdown of normal social and human standards. Such an incident occurred last week near Wiener-Neudorf, in Austria's Russian zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: And Who Is My Neighbor? | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...breakdown of the statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bang That Ball, Brother, or How to Run a Hockey-Shoppe | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...regional basis, a majority of 43 students come from Europe and Canada, 32 from Latin America, 6 from the Far East, and but I from the Near East. A breakdown by countries shows that Guatemala leads with 8 representatives, followed by Germany with 7, and by England and France with 6 apiece. No less than 13 countries are represented by one student apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 82-Foreign Students of 32 Nations Now Registered as Undergraduates | 10/23/1946 | See Source »

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