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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inviting a Negro speaker to its meeting next Thursday the Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa hopes to express its own sentiments on this subject and bring pressure on the executive board to change the constitutional race ruling, without taking action which could result in suspension from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PDK GROUP TO HAVE NEGRO SPEAKER | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

...Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought but ne'er so well express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull's-Eye for Bovarys | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...need hardly say that the people of Southwark, with the whole of the people of Britain welcome the United States as an ally in the War against the anti-democratic states, and on their behalf, the Council desire me to express supreme confidence that, with the powerful assistance of the United States States and of Russia, the fight for freedom and liberty will soon be victorious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Conant Receives War Letter from England | 1/30/1942 | See Source »

Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Jippo for the Jap? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

British patience was strained. The London Daily Express called the civilian and military defenders of Malaya "a pack of whiskey-swilling planters and military birds of passage." The only answer: The Aussies had not yet begun to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Jippo for the Jap? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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