Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney...
Nazi reconnaissance planes discovered a flotilla of powerful British destroyers which may have been steaming toward the rumored naval concentration off Tripoli. Swarms of Heinkel & Junkers dive-bombers swooped down on the destroyers in midafternoon, sank the 1,935-ton Lively on their first attack, were driven off by British...
He may be surprised to learn-and to corroborate in Bartlett -that the National Anthem reads not "in triumph shall wave" but "Oh, long may it wave." He will discover, if he did not know it, that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but...
Commenting on the general situation in Eastern Asia, he stated that the evidence of growing Occidental appreciation of the rights of Oriental peoples is the most significant development of the century on the Far Eastern stage. One of the basic difficulties in our policy toward Asia, he continued, has been...
Japanese flying ships are playing over the Mandalay Road in a fashion Kipling never imagined. Jap pilots fix towns under their sights like bugs beneath a microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle...