Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stating that the fall of France was the most disastrous event in the history of World War II, Professor Hans Kohn of Smith College spoke yesterday in the New Lecture Hall for the Harvard unit of France Forever in celebration of Bastille...
Congrats to you for giving a hand to Jean Thomas and her Singin' Gatherin' [TIME, June 22]. Miss Thomas has worked untiringly and unceasingly in behalf of this annual event, and she has made a permanent contribution to the best in American folk music. Moreover, in her books, particularly The Traipsin' Woman, she has made outstanding contributions to American regional literature...
...Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...
...greatest single event in termite history was the invention of central heating. Better-heated houses now permit these sensitive insects to extend their activities for the first time into regions where temperatures under 50° would otherwise kill them. In general, human civilization has been a blessing to termites. In large areas of the South and West, termites have built themselves into the underpinning of the American home...
...Alaska-and Japan-could hear the forbidden news merely by a twist of a short-wave radio dial. Alaska newspapers were forbidden to mention Dutch Harbor casualties until survivors landed in Seattle last week, 22 days after the event...