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Word: chelseas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador to Spain Sir Samuel Hoare, extreme right-wing Tory, told his Chelsea constituency: "The danger to Europe is not Russian influence but Russian isolation." The Ambassador representing British policy to Spain's Russia-hating Francisco Franco also said that "fearful souls" should understand that "Communism . . . is a national, not an international product," pointedly advised that those who fear Communism "should so put your house in order that your social and political conditions will silence any demand for its introduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blueprint for Europe | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Adults | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Plans are being made for engagements at Radcliffe College, the Chelsea Naval Hospital and the WAVES School in Cambridge. Rehearsals of the club are held each Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/24/1943 | See Source »

...that those brands took up just as much cargo space as the big-five cigarets most of them had been accustomed to smoking. Troops in England spread a rumor (false) that the U.S. Government had taken over a plant in Richmond, was making its own cigarets and calling them "Chelsea." This probably sprang up months ago when soldiers ordering their favorite brands were given Chelseas in the ratio of three to four of the favorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Cigaret Mystery | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...enough cigarets are being sent overseas to give every man on foreign service (more than one million this spring) a pack a day. The percentage distribution seemed to be normal: Lucky Strike 21, Camels 21, Chesterfields 18, Philip Morris 12, Old Gold 11, Raleigh 6, Twenty Grand 3½, Chelsea 3, all others 4½. Army Exchange Service, which with the quartermasters buys cigarets for overseas distribution, was surprised to hear about the cigaret-supply mystery, which had already gone 16 months without solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Cigaret Mystery | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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