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Members of the Class of 1942 who received awards are: Paul Carp, Ames L. Proctor, Robert Nassan, Bertram Staff, Thorwill Brehmer, Edmund J. Haris, Robert Navin, R. T. Sceery, and T. A. Herzfeld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Gives $642 in Scholarships | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...needed naval item declined to expand their plants-capacity unless & until they were assured of a fair taxation-amortization policy (see p. 72). All in all, U. S. citizens Could well wish for more speed. But after pondering what Robinson, Moreell & Co. were up against, they could hardly carp at less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Inventory | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...near Paris the only school ever created by one nation for the exclusive benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal in the village square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fontainebleau on Cape Cod | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Appeasement | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pacific Pacific? | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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