Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of a new session. The slate would be clean; there would be an infusion of new blood. With power almost evenly divided, neither Democrats nor Republicans would be able to pass the buck. The 78th Congress might be caught up in even more bitter brawls; it might establish a new pattern of responsibility. The U.S. people hoped for the best...
...Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians on the western bank. Then they broke the line by a brilliant assault upon the bedeviled Germans' new rear...
...reveals how strongly they are united in the midst of the war. When a weary people turns aside from its vigilant path on the arrival of Armistice II, they will be prepared to gather like vultures at the peace conference and suck the blood from any vital attempts to establish harmony among nations...
...illustrate the degree of unreadiness in the Pacific last December, Admiral King strode to a map in his Washington office and pointed to a position conveniently near but safely out of the combat zones. At this logical point he had to establish a fleet-fueling base after the fighting began ("one of the first things I caused to be done...
Made necessary by the present incomplete and scattered information and by the lack of a system of cross-tabulation, this will be the first attempt to establish a complete record of the under graduate body for immediate reference...