Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice is before the College. It can remain in the shadow of yesterday, waking only long enough to note the stern return of Swarthmore to the fold. Or it can follow the Radcliffe Student Council into the companionate world of the present...
...Poindexter plans to drop a "thank-you" note in the mail for Professor Prosser, "who was a very thoughtful man to make us a wedding gift," and Mr. Poindexter has decided to spread his time between thinking up an appropriate image of Prosser to garnish his mantelpiece and deciding just what to do with another fiver that came his way last night...
...hurry for a plebiscite, especially one conducted (as Pakistan demands) by some "neutral" administration. In that land today, who could be neutral or impartial? Abdullah struck a note of grave doubt: "I say to you frankly that if you ask Almighty God to administer the State of Kashmir, I do not feel even He will act impartially...
...filled with U.S. coins-43? in all. A twelve-year-old, John Morris, had collected and saved them to send to the U.S. for comic books; instead, he was giving them to his dollar-hungry country. John's government accepted his 43?, and Clem Attlee wrote him a note: ". . . It was a fine idea...
...Note of Sarcasm. In pages likely to cause uneasiness in Democratic Party headquarters and certain to provoke angry retorts from F.D.R.'s supporters, Lane charges that during Roosevelt's and the early part of Truman's administration, U.S. Government leaders deliberately misled the public about the seriousness of the Polish situation. When Lane told President Roosevelt that strong steps should be taken to maintain Poland's independence, "the President asked rather sharply and with a note of sarcasm, 'Do you want me to go to war with Russia...