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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to find words to accurately describe my thoughts relative to the article concerning the wedding of our well-beloved Elizabeth. As a fourth-generation Canadian, and, I hope and pray, a good British subject, I feel a hot flush of disgust for your article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Molotov blandly played the same propaganda record over again. Cried Ernie Bevin: ". . . The same untrue statements are repeated as if we had never answered them." Said Marshall: "... A pure propaganda statement. [Mr. Molotov] makes it rather difficult to inspire respect for the dignity of the Soviet Government." Molotov tautened, stared straight at the blue table. "He looked," said one observer, "a little stiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Adjournment | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Perhaps the least spurious and most difficult maneuver is the Oklahoma ride. After the game is over the player rocks the machine skillfully, just strongly enough to jar any loose buttons on the playing surface and weakly enough to keep the tilt from hitting. Result, free games. Of course there are other methods of outwitting pinball machines, but proprietors haven't discovered them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brute Force Replacing Skill As Pinball Becomes Lost Art | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...diminutive size compared to other major trail-entwined slopes in Pico Peak in Rutland, Vermont. There are an alpine lift and a rope tow hauling for two open slopes and one trail. The open slopes, though short, are sleep and difficult, and provide good proving grounds for slalom and schuss techniques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Lake Placid, home of the college week winter sports jamboree, is more a tobogganing and skating hangout than a ski resort. Although Mount Marcy, White Race, and Mount Jo have the best skiing in the Adirondacks, high living expenses, slow rope tow service, and difficult transportation facilities keep skiing at a minimum in this area.Skiing Photographs in this issue by Earl Scott '40Hillman's Highway, Mt. Washington, Now Hampshire, as soon from the ravine shelter, presents a formidable spectacle even to the expert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

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