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Nine o'clock came each night before his car swung through Washington's jammed traffic, crossed into Maryland to Oxon Hill, where the Secretary could enter the cool magnificence of his home. In the great Georgian house Welles dined briefly, buckled into his homework. Even in the thick, still heat of a Maryland summer night on the Potomac, Sumner Welles seemed cool. War or peace, he will remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomat's Diplomat | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, all SKF Industries top executives are working 60 to 70 hours a week "and we go home with homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: 168-Hour Week | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Soviet expropriations have piled up more interest costs and legal fees than the original claims, yet a great many of them remain unsolved after twenty-three years. But the potential legal complications after World War II make the Russian claims look like a law schoolboy's homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Chase Wants to Know | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...slogan this year was "Education for the Common Defense." Visitors saw much flag-saluting, heard much anthem-singing. But beyond that, they found educators confused, uncertain what had to be done. Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For the Common Defense | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Britain. While church bells ring an invasion warning, the old maids find a dying parachutist in the bottom of their garden. A few moments later a British officer knocks at their front door. He has lost his way to the airport, wants to borrow a map. Having done their homework on the Ministry's invasion pamphlet the Misses Grant know enough to keep the officer talking until a tongue slip (he says "Yarvis" instead of Jarvis Hill) reveals him as a German. One lady holds him at bay with a pistol found on the dying man while the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Shorts | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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