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Four hundred fourteen officers, including five from the Coast-Guard, graduated Friday morning from the Naval Training School (Communication). The majority of the men will leave immediately for active service with the fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NTS Communications Graduates 414 Here | 1/30/1945 | See Source »

...Fourteen libraries, including Harvard's Widener, are taking part in a cooperative enterprise, the New England Deposit Library, the first of its kind, which is helping to ease the critical shortage of storage space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER AIDED BY UNUSUAL PROJECT | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

More C-47s, the largest force of all, went farther eastward. Soon below them lay the great bend of the Rhine, where it turns west to the sea. There, near the Dutch town of Nijnegen, and only fourteen miles from the German city of Cleve, where the Siegfried Line ends, brown and white and yellow and blue parachutes soon filled the fields on both sides of the wide Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (West): History in the Air | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...members of a class for executives in the University's School of Business, he had given four two-hour examinations in the humanities and the social, physical and biological sciences. Fourteen of the examinees, mostly middle-aged men, had never been to college. Five of the non-college men showed a respectable grasp of all four fields, five others passed in three, and the remaining four proved themselves well-grounded in at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Knocks and Culture | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Fourteen Points? Oh, no, he said, this plan just contained principles. Would there be a formal conference to thrash out differences? Franklin Roosevelt said he didn't know anything about any conference. Heavens, he added, he could conduct a conversation over the telephone. That was all that there was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Great Blueprint | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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