Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman-who went to New York to watch the World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department's chief of protocol...
...meeting also approved a Studies Program for the winter. Seven monthly sessions are scheduled, each of which will be attended by 50 European students. November has been set aside as a general month, with visiting lecturers on American subjects...
...typical American girl was well-dressed, with new-look skirts (many European women have not converted), and page-boy hairdo. She carried her valuables in a handbag with an over- the-shoulder strap, a device unheard of abroad. Gentlemen on the street would stop to give her a long appreciative stare, a stare which began at her feet and worked its way leisurely...
...schedules of military arms to be furnished by the U.S. had already undergone many a revision. Original requests from Western European countries had simply listed what each country felt it needed. The requests had been carefully screened and trimmed down to size by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Then a committee of State, Defense and EGA officials had worked out the all but final figures...
...incoming freshman class than the directions to College Hall . . . And we realize what a hard year the first one is. But all good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine and earlier in the summer he's had in Minnesota a fishing trip, we're told. Together the three jaunts lasted well over two months, ample, even for a freshman...