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Word: floodings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dike Falls. Concluded Bullitt: "The dike which today prevents the Communist flood from sweeping southward to the Indian Ocean is the line of the Yangtze River in China. It is a formidable obstacle ... If the dike of the Yangtze falls, we shall let in upon ourselves a sea of troubles in comparison with which our present problems in the Far East will seem a mere unpleasant puddle . . . We do have to recognize that we are at one of the turning points of human history, and that we cannot afford to be wrong in our decisions, since the stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Turning Point | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...officers are: Melvin L. Zurier '50, president; Arthur W. Purcelle '50, vice president; K. Bruce Friedman '50, home secretary; Charles B. Flood '51, treasurer; and A. Werner Pleus, '51, publicity chairman. Jerome B. Spunt '50 was reelected corresponding secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Council Elects New Slate | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Path of Love | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...everyone finds this production flood a cause for cheering. Three months ago, the Federal Communications Commission called a halt to new transmitter construction (TIME, Oct. 11), partly from the conviction that the industry should get along for a while without new stations and take a breathing spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Young Monster | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Nowhere to Nothing | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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