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Wars are not the only things that have sent Casey abroad. He once traveled 33,500 miles through two hurricanes and four full gales to bring back 20,000 feet of motion-picture film showing the stone idols of a vanished race on Easter Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Casey Comes Home | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

52.Then sensational "Easter" agreements were announced by Japan and Russia containing all but one of these terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 30, 1941 | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...three-year course, besides their normal four-year one, said their spokesman, Dr. Guy Everett Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges. He guessed about 250,000 students would enroll for it. They will save time by attending twelve-week summer sessions, cutting short their Christmas and Easter holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Degrees in Three Years | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Returning from their Easter holiday to school in the north of England, two young sons of Belgian Premier-in-Exile Hubert Pierlot were trapped in a railway coach that caught fire, killed as they leaped from the train. A brother, Gerard, 13, was badly hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation, a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200 enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sit-Down Strike | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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