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Despite the speed with which Princeton's program was started, there now seems little chance that similar action can take place here before the first of May at the earliest, and it is very possible that the program will not be under way before July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON ADVANCED MIL SCI MEN PLACED ON ACTIVE DUTY | 4/1/1943 | See Source »

...earliest known tattooed human was an Egyptian mummy excavated from a tomb marked 2000 B.C." (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Salutary Warning | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Tomb. The earliest known tattooed human was an Egyptian mummy excavated from a tomb marked 2000 B.C. The Japanese are said to have practiced the art for nearly 2,500 years. It has been known to Christianity since the 13th Century, when the Crusaders returned tattooed from the Holy Land. Probably responsible for tattooing's popularity among sailors was Captain Cook, who in 1769 wrote of the custom among South Sea Islanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skins & Needles | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Your prime and main duty will be to take or destroy at the earliest opportunity the German-Italian army commanded by Rommel," Winston Churchill last summer informed General Sir Harold Alexander, his Commander in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: R. S. V. P. | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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