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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Visitor Bound for Illinois | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...urgency over all of Europe. Once again it had been proved that the German Wehrmacht was not invincible. To peasants and patriots in occupied countries the certainty of eventual Allied victory was a staff to lean upon until guns could be used again. Satellite states squirmed. In Germany, the "master race" looked furtively over its shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Over Their Shoulders | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...days early instead of a month late, the Enlisted Reserve has sent out orders for a large group of men to report to induction centers on June 5 instead of June 10 as was formerly thought, according to Elliott Perkins '23. Director of the War Service Information Bureau and Master of Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERC MEN TO GO ON JUNE 5; NO MARINES TO TRAIN HERE | 5/19/1943 | See Source »

...Earned. Markova earns around $350 a week, wears out three pairs of ballet slippers doing it. Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Danseuse Noble | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across Claude Wickard, grubbing about in a bean patch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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