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Word: leste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...file of meetings, sponsors, buildings, dates, and estimated attendances would be kept. For the immediate present, the Information Bureau should be better patronized by student organizations anxious to escape conflicts; in the long run, the Student Council can do the job more capably. Extra-curriculars need wiser rationing, lest they be poured down the drain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DATE BUREAU | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

...which the President's picture of a good peace was measured against World Revolution as Lenin once presented its tasks-destroying the old order from top to bottom, uprooting the old beliefs, shattering the old traditions, the old moralities, the old customs, atomizing the old system lest its institutions become rallying-points for people who do not like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: President & Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Miss Thompson's startling discovery was hailed next day by Washington Pundit Arthur Krock. Writing from his New York Times office, on the seventh floor of Washington's ivory-colored Albee Building, Mr. Krock hinted further that the Government dared not admit the wonderful truth lest it get no more money for relief funds. Likewise, the Republicans ignored the truth for fear of conceding that Roosevelt had actually produced recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNEMPLOYMENT: How Many? | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Chinese people he expects to rule what are the terms of the pact he has made with Japan. "Now is not the time," bleated Wang in Shanghai, diving like a prairie dog into a Japanese steamer which chugged off up the swirling Yangtze, escorted by five Japanese gunboats. Lest somebody take a pot shot at Puppet Wang from the river bank, Japanese puppeteers kept him below decks, Japanese censorship choked off all news of what happened when "the new Premier" reached sacked and gutted Nanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...News & Courier Editor Ball wrote gallantly: "Is it expected and demanded that a newspaper calling itself honest should stand by in silence, lest some of its friends suffer loss by not sharing in extravagant and wasteful spending of public money by genial politicians? ... If the editor of the News & Courier is an obstacle to Charleston, a thorn in its flesh, he ... is prepared at a moment's notice to remove himself. He is not prepared to move from his opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor, Old Style | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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