Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduate editors and writers can enter a brief competition this week for the position of writer of "The Undergraduate," a regular Alumni Bulletin feature. Competition calls for submission of manuscripts covering the news of the month from April 15 through May 15, and the winning article will appear in the issue...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
...Chinese commander who had smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not the Gimo's choice. There were roots of distrust reaching back to 1929 when Li led a brief defection of Kwangsi generals. But his strong words made him a rallying point for all the non-Communist dissatisfaction in China-intellectuals, army officers, northerners whose lands had been overrun by the Reds...
Even when the characters think back upon their own lives, or when the author condenses their experience in brief little biographies, the content of their doing is still war-war on the streets and at the parties, the wisecracks whining like rifle shots, the love affairs like ambushes...
...piece of mind he is trying to set down coherently in his bluebook, the exam proctors' activities are too often distracting. Proctors parade up and down the aisles, and frequently peer intently over the undergraduate shoulder, and when the undergraduate eye moves wearily around the room for a brief rest, it encounters the fierce, accusing glare of these vigilantes...