Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Riley soldiers soon learn that it does no good to whistle at Junk Town girls-they can't be had. Monson and his friends have noticed the return of the old civilian belief that soldiers are bums who haven't got the brains to be anything else. No one seems to remember that they were drafted. Nice girls, who once thought it smart and patriotic to be seen with soldiers (preferably an officer), now just say: "On your way, dogface...
...think the 18 months he had put in were wasted time? "Well, I guess it is," he said, "when you consider that I could be a junior in college today if I hadn't had to come into the Army. But I won't say that I haven't learned anything. I've learned to get along away from home. And I've learned to live with other guys. I guess I'll do better in school when I get back. They say the veterans do better than the nonveterans. That's something...
HANOVER, N. H., February 12--Dartmouth hasn't lost a hockey game to an American team on its own Davis Rink ice since 1940. The high-powered Indians haven't dropped a decision to Harvard since coach Joe Stubbs' men swept their sixteenth straight win by trouncing the Green, 14 to 4, before a 1937 Winter Carnival crowd...
...perhaps, bloodshed. Britain would be rid of Palestine, which up to now it has been trying to drop with well glued fingers, at the same time retaining a military base. The Jews would find the area of their future expansion defined and limited, but they would have a haven and a future. And the Arabs, while renouncing claim to a sizable area of the Holy Land, would unquestionably be able to negotiate a suitable economic settlement that would assuage their initial hurt. Meanwhile, unless real autonomy comes out of partition, better no partition...
...that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult to pick out the haven he would seek in the storm. "The Coming Crisis" points the way to a socialist state with reservations...