Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives from Princeton undergraduate clubs will meet with university President Harold W. Dodds tomorrow to attempt to iron out the student-administration dispute that has kept the New Jersey campus in a state of near-revolt since Wednesday...
...Wounds of a Nation. This war's most pitiful victims are Greece's people. While the rest of Europe, on either side of the Iron Curtain, has been allowed years of respite and reconstruction, the Greeks have known only more killing, have been touched only by tragedy. Last week from Athens, TIME Correspondent Mary Barber cabled...
Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of the earthworks were built facing not the Communists, but one another...
...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...recently. Both events would be close tomorrow as should be the discus in which Jack Kiggen joins Ravreby for the freshmen. Dan Tucker and Dick Rubin will be competing against their ex-teammates from Andover Joe Chadbourne and Jim Mason in the hammer. All four have been heaving the iron to between 140 and 150 feet...