Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott Lucas, in an indiscreet moment, had come close to defining what more Harry Truman could get out of Congress before summer adjournment. Stubborn Harry Truman, in public at least, was unwilling to admit...
What Day Is It? At midnight, Communist infantrymen commanded by General Chen Yi began filtering into Shanghai through the French concession in the southwest. The Reds moved as quietly as they could. In small groups they advanced slowly down the sidewalks of Avenue Joffre and Great Western Road, sidling close to buildings for protection against occasional fire from isolated Nationalist snipers. By 9 a.m. they had reached the city's skyscraper-lined Bund...
...varsity tennis team played one of its best games of the season against Yale Saturday, but the Blue played a little better to take a close 8 to 7 victory in a match that began at noon and wasn't over until...
Three of the seven singles matches taken by the Blue were especially close, Charlie Ames, Dick Hatten, and Ted Bullard all falling by narrow margins. However, in the number one competition Yale's distinguished captain Rola Ray had little trouble in whipping Harvard's Bud Ager...
This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude...