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First, he asked the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution urging 1) state control of "any form of propaganda of a new war ... in press, radio, cinema and in public statements," i.e., government censorship on the loosest of terms; 2) settlement of "outstanding international questions through negotiation between the powers"; 3) "withdrawal by the four powers of their occupation forces from the territory of Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Getting Set | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Statistics on team scoring show that Dartmouth has the highest scoring offense and the loosest defense. In nine games the Indians have scored 172 points and allowed their opponents to tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clasby, Culver Finish High In Individual Ivy Records | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

Loose Ends. Solution of the central issue-the make-up of a new Polish government-left some loose ends dangling. Loosest was Tomasz Arciszewski's London Government, now definitely in the discard. Poland's heroic, well-trained army in exile was still under the London Government's command, and still unreconciled to the changes at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: After the Party | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Between Tibetan and other languages-except related Burmese, Chinese, Tai-there is a great and scholar-swallowing gulf. The grammar is exotic plus, the spelling has only the loosest association with the pronunciation (brgyad means eight, is pronounced jay), the literature is virtually unrelated to the contemporary idiom. Through the centuries the Tibetans under their Lamas* have adapted their language very slowly, although they have taken over some words like airplane (the Germans attempted the first test flight across the country) and electric light (Lhasa has a small power plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Found Horizon | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...With only the loosest connections with Oxford University, the Oxford Group is by no means to be with the Oxford Movement, a Church of England revival of a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moral Rearmament | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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