Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Should the U.S. rush in more air power besides the 100 "volunteer" pilots of the International Tigers (who last week helped shoot down nine Japanese planes over Rangoon)? Should China mount an offensive into Indo-China, or rush troops into Burma, or even to Malaya? The conferees announced the creation of a Military Council, the first working body for joint action in the war. But their strategic decisions necessarily remained a military secret...
...Davis and Vice Moderator Elbert Thomas, Senator from Utah, had gone to Mr. Roosevelt in despair. There were three points, they reported, on which all hands would agree: 1) no strikes or lockouts for the duration; 2) settlement of all disputes through step-by-step conciliation, mediation, arbitration; 3) creation of a War Labor Board to handle the disputes. But management wanted a fourth point: no further discussion of the closed shop until the war 'is over. Labor wanted to discuss nothing else...
...years Professor Merriman has made of the dry bones of the House Plan a living, vital creation. What he has given Eliot House is something that will remain after him as a part of the elusive but ever-present tradition that is Harvard...
...maids read, bridled, sent a committee to Warden Laura Woolsey Lord Scales demanding an immediate apology. The faculty suspended the Tatler and its editors wrote the maids a penitent letter. "We hope that [the maids] will accept our apologies and that they will be lenient with a sheer creation, unfortunate and ill-advised." Appeased, the maids resumed their mopping...
There is an authentic flavor about TIME'S half hour on the air that is not precisely captured by the cinema version nor by TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine . . an ineffable something that creates the illusion of the original happening, rather than its re-creation through deft reporting...