Word: genera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never-attained definition of colossal. Only the Army could supply it. Ranging around the world on almost every show the program has presented scores of personages and plain people, from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek through United Nations generals to fighting men in the ranks. Colonel Warren J. Clear, of Genera MacArthur's staff, wept at the microphone when he told the firsthand story of the fighting on Bataan. Profane soldier-talk often sneaks into the prepared script. Because the Axis would like very much to know that General Sir Archibald Wavell, for instance, would be on the air from...
...slow trend toward the liberalization of General Henri Honore Giraud's North African Government (TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
Every rational detail in the book, from their fantastic hardheadedness to their still more fantastic menus, suggests that the King is right. Also suggested is the growing possibility that the author of This Above All (TIME, April 21) may yet become what the world has lacked for two genera tions: a major popular novelist...
...message came from the President ("a fine job well done"). Tall, white-haired Supervising Engineer Frank A. Banks spoke; an engineer turned water into the turbine of Number Two Genera tor; another adjusted the generator's speed, a third, voltage. A round dome top-light began burning. Construction Engineer A. F. Darland, grey-haired veteran of dams, watched the dial of a gauge to check the moment the generator syn chronized with others at Bonneville, 450 miles downstream. When the arrow stood straight up he slammed the switch. Coulee's power was linked...
...accomplishments of the National Scholarship men in Harvard College indicate that they have been a representative group who have not only done well in their academic work but have also been active in extra-curricular affairs and have exerted a significant influence on the genera life of the College. For example, two of the recent Student Council president have been National Scholars. The possible renewal of the scholarships at the end of the Freshman year for the remainder of the college course relieves the student of certain worry and pressure and makes it possible for him to devote his attention...