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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Library officials are willing to open Boylston after hour exams if it is proven necessary. But they have no reason to keep it closed now. This cautious action will undoubtedly insure that a lot of exam answers are incorrect. It would be interesting to see campstools in Widener's halls, but lights in Boylston would be more satisfying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Lag | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

...Axis claims were extravagant. Berlin later admitted that the report about the Wasp was incorrect. But the British admitted the loss of the new 9,400-ton heavy cruiser Manchester. They also admitted the torpedoing of the Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Not Without Loss | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...leave it to you to judge the manner in which this understanding was respected. I can further state that the character of the article in question is as far from the spirit of our conversation as the "quotations" attributed to me are incorrect and misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...observes, in the gait of the women, "a kind of serenely confident ostentation"; he notes too that they are bold with their eyes in the streets, and the men shy, almost to a reversal of sex. To him the well-known myth about the dominant American female is incorrect; "it seems to me rather the cult of woman, a little in the spirit of the troubadours. ..." When Remains explains to him that American men, though you may talk with them freely about the French or Chinese or Tahitian, have "a curious-and in a way admirable and touching-sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Will | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...listen so well at home. They inspected munitions plants, factories and shipyards, everywhere cheered by British workmen, everywhere given the fullest cooperation. Winding up his tour last week Comrade Shvernik said the British workers were fine but the British system not so good. He charged that there was "an incorrect attitude in some factories regarding the initiative of working men and women on their rationalizing proposals; unwillingness to listen to the voice of working men and women and their shop stewards; and even, in individual factories, a limiting of the level of output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Russian Invasion | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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