Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three decades, it was almost unbelievable. In Shanghai, haven of some 20,000 White Russians, they queued up, 500 to 600 daily, at the big grey Soviet Consulate. The would-be comrades included czarist dukes, countesses, generals. Half earnest, half jesting, they quavered: "Will they send us to concentration camps?" One woman asked another: "Is it very frightful?" Then, crossing herself, she filled out her questionnaire...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...
Hockey, basketball, swimming, wrestling, track, and squash racquets--all these are on the docket for Crimson warriors tomorrow afternoon and evening, in addition to another basketball contest on Monday evening against Rutgers. Ivy tradition dictates that the hockey game at New Haven tomorrow evening and the wrestling match with a visiting Yale squad at 3 o'clock in the Indoor athletic Building head the list...
More difficult opposition than the Tigers, who have only just resumed hockey after three years of inactivity and who have no indoor rink on which to practice, will be provided on Saturday evening by Yale, when the Crimson treks down to New Haven. The Elis have had formal hockey all through the war, and are rated along with Dartmouth as one of the top teams in the East...
...Vancouver, an industrialist said: "Prices and wages play a large part in industrial peace here. Wages haven't risen much during the war, but neither has the cost of living.* So Canadian workers don't have the incentive to strike that U.S. workers have...