Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter, a brass band and swarms of functionaries were on hand to note the occasion. Said Reuter warmly: "It wove a bond of cooperation and of sentiment that marked the beginning of a different era." A more characteristically American epitaph was a placard bearing the lettered notice...
...foreign diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...
...total shoe business soared 36% above the same period in 1948. Then the Times got to worrying about Montana. It ran Callahan's "What's the matter with Montana?" ad again, in its own pages and in Women's Wear Daily, and added a note: there was nothing the matter with Montana, because "Montanans buy 1,111 copies of the New York Times...
Despite the defeat, there is at least a bright note in the fact that all Crimson injuries stayed healed. Munro's squad should be at full strength when it visits Amherst on Columbus...