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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Breaking down as it does once a year, Phillips Brooks House will play Cupid next week to the Freshmen and Freshwomen of Harvard and Radcliffe, sponsoring a series of teas to exploit the local boy-meets-girl angle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. TO ACT AS GO-BETWEEN FOR RADCLIFFE AND YARDLINGS | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

...these newlyweds were counting on the supposition that married men will be exempt from the draft; but everywhere marriage-license records were broken. In Cleveland someone started a rumor and Cupid became cupidity. "Is it true," asked young women in a flood of phone calls, "that a war veteran's widow will get no pension if she marries after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Mendelssohn v. Souso | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia comes at noon. After dinner he stretched out on his double mahogany bed that stands beneath three ivy-shaded windows, put two pillows under his head, and slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Story of a Tide | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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