Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the U.S. could not have acted in the Czech crisis because Prague was so much nearer to Russia than to the U.S. That was all too true. Austria, Italy, Germany, the Middle East, China, Korea and Japan were also nearer to Russia. The point was that their fall would bring Russia much nearer to the U.S. not only in geography but, more importantly, in degree of power...
Nazi Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland on May 10, 1941. From that day until his trial at Nürnberg in the fall of 1946, Hess was quizzed, examined and speculated about by British and U.S. psychiatrists. Last week eight of them published their findings in The Case of Rudolf Hess (W .W. Norton...
Many dealers expected things to pick up (though not to last fall's peak) with spring weather. National Used Car Mar ket Reports, Inc. said: "The light is amber, not red." But if overall business slumps in the latter half of this year, it warned, the light will certainly turn...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...
Meanwhile, a short special meeting of the Student Council voted last night to send $400 from the Service Fund to the Red Cross, $350 to the American Cancer Association, and $250 to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Allocation was determined by a student poll taken last fall...