Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against a revived Germany as against Russia; he would exclude from the pact a belt of neutral buffer states running from Scandinavia through Western Germany, Austria and Italy. Two weeks ago Lippmann expressed his fear that the State Department is planning to make Britain a junior partner in a close U.S.-British alliance, leaving Germany dominant in Europe...
...figure that had been out of public sight for five months. Vyacheslav Molotov, variously rumored to be ill, busy at a secret job or out of favor, was obviously still No. 2 man in the U.S.S.R. With Stalin absent he had the place of honor among the mourners. Close by him was pudgy Georgi Malenkov, confirming by his position that in the U.S.S.R. hierarchy he had risen...
...Vermont. There he fell in love with learning, borrowed $500 from an aunt and set off for the six-year-old Johns Hopkins University for more study. "Don't be so bookish," Hopkins President Daniel C. Gilman warned him; "get out and see more people." But John stuck close to his books; he had made up his mind to become a professional philosopher...
...trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector ruled that Curley and three other defendants were guilty of mail fraud. But, in his decision, Prector asked for a full review of the case by a higher court; the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision in a close vote and the Supreme Court refused to review the case. Curley was sentenced to 18 months at Danbury...
...Harvard attendance which has been estimated at close to 100,000 compares favorably to the 23,400 per-game average for 112 schools but is far from the midwestern universities. Michigan is the nation's leader with 291,707 gross for three games...