Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Major Jacob Daniel ("Japie") Smuts, 42, modest, gold-mining son of Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who once served as his father's aide-de-camp; of meningitis; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...
...Switzerland, with small-circulation papers and not much big news, said Crossman, "Gresham's law of journalism does not operate. Hot news in Switzerland does not drive out cold information . . . The Swiss press's . . . major purpose is to inform, not to increase circulation ... Thus it has avoided both the French disease of political corruption and the Anglo-Saxon disease of sensationalism...
...audience, which is subjected to all the knitted brows, quivering nostrils, tossed locks-and tantrumacious bad manners-that cinemaddicts have learned to recognize as signs of artistic genius. The Red Shoes is such a spotty piece of movie craftsmanship that it is hard to believe that it is a major effort by Britain's crack moviemaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going...
...Hygiene Department Saturday turned thumbs down on every major recommendation of the University-wide Committee on Hygiene...