Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagnerian music was ruled out of the Metropolitan Opera, and there are some who would like to see the same thing happen...
...Happen? Recriminations by the bitter Dutch defenders told part of the story, but only part: promised Allied reinforcements did not arrive; an Allied High Command was imposed upon the Dutch, without the Allied troops, planes and ships which would have made the joint command effective. It was, in part, the story of Norway, France, Crete and Malaya: hugely superior air forces knocking out the few Allied squadrons, then dive-bombing ground defenders into subjection...
...summer, when vast new war plants opened up, the U.S. would really feel the housing shortage. Baltimore, where shipbuilding, oil and chemical workers looked in vain for nearby houses last week, was an indication. Officials wondered what would happen when the expected 18,000 new workers moved...
...encouraging showing of the local five against B. U. last Wednesday, Coach Earl Brown should be optimistic for the team's third straight victory in tonight's fray. But as in all Yale games, anything can happen...
...raid drill last week in which every warden at college was away is an example of what could happen. Unless every man knows his job and unless all duties are coordinated, Harvard is going to find itself helpless when the attack comes. Such conditions made for Pearl Harbor and the bungling of production under the O.P.M...