Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia, where tough, pepper-eating Serbs breathed defiance and garlic even at the Axis. But surrounded by seven nations, five of which want a slice of her territory, and stranded without a single guarantee, Yugoslavia was already on the griddle. Even if the South Slavs would fight, a brief Balkan war on the way south to Egypt and the Suez would do no more than relieve boredom in the Nazi ranks...
Most U. S. citizens regard totalitarians as a foreign breed, find it hard to believe that they can grow in U. S. soil. Yet not every totalitarian is trained in a totalitarian school. Last week one appeared at Harvard. TIME herewith reports the brief case history of a native U. S. Nazi...
...Best Dartmouth" rally, Harvard's second big cheer-fest of the season, will take place in the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:15 o'clock today, with more than 300 Freshman already pledged to attend on a petition circulated by several Yardlings last night. A brief program of speeches, songs, and yells had been planned, lasting about 25 minutes all told...
Concerts will be given every Sunday after supper from 7 to 8 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. The purpose of the concerts is merely to give pleasure, education being incidental. The programs consist of a brief introductory piece and a symphony or two of shorter pieces...
More than 600 miles north and almost 1,000 miles east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...