Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates broke up into six committees, which would accomplish whatever concrete work the Council was capable of. The committees would have a chance to agree on recommendations for: Europe's economy, social security, common European nationality and passport, joint public works (possibly including the old Jules Vernean dream of a tunnel under the Channel), and changes in the political structure of Europe to achieve greater unity...
...years ago, realizing its hot and violent dream of freedom, India formally broke away from the British Raj. More than once since then it had seemed as if the great subcontinent would consume itself in war; by this summer, India gave the greatest promise of stability in Red-flooded Asia. But that stability was far from secure. From New Delhi, TIME correspondent Robert Lubar cabled...
...Dream in the Swamp. With more land than any other man in Paraguay and with more cattle than he can count (about 80,000, he guesses), Georgie Lohman had made a Texas ranch boy's dream come true 5,000 miles from home. In 1912, when Fight Promoter Tex Rickard advertised that he needed cowhands for a Paraguayan ranching venture, young Lohman went south. Rickard soon quit but Lohman, with a $1,000 stake from Rickard, stayed. He bought 600 head of cattle and 50,000 acres, and started ranching at Red Wells, no miles west of Concepci...
...salary which never came to more than $320 a year. Sacked in 1870 for letting girls come to his science classes, he supported a wife and five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple of sun-scorched, rocky acres on the outskirts of the town of Sérignan, in the department of Vaucluse. On this scrap of earth, which he fondly called his Eden, Henri Fabre settled down, at the age of 55, to the full-time pursuit of his life...
...Yuasa's wish has at last been amply realized; he has just been appointed president of Japan's new International Christian University. Long a dream of Christians on both sides of the Pacific, the I.C.U. will open in 1951, specializing in graduate courses. To finance the university, Japanese businessmen have raised 150 million yen (about half a million dollars); next month, a $10 million fund-raising drive will be launched...