Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frenchman living in Paris sent along the following note with his subscription renewal: "One of the strongest reasons I have for reading TIME, aside from its American viewpoint on world affairs, is that . . . when I read it I feel as if I were in America with its freedom and its wide spaces - a freedom we have lost in Europe and the space we never...
...week's end, the State Department released a note of protest to the Nationalist government. It denounced the shelling as "unjustifiable and contrary to the law and practice of nations," and "requested" that the Chinese government issue orders that such incidents did not recur. If face meant some show of consistency, firmness and healthy self-respect, it was an Oriental concept that might be difficult to achieve, but was long overdue in U.S. policy in Asia...
...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...this, Harper's editors added an admiring little note about "Horatio" DeVoto and the hope that every devoted reader would line up behind...
Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...