Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It has been apparent to us in both Europe and in the Philippines that American soldiers abroad have misunderstood on every possible occasion the people they have known so slightly. The education of students abroad, with its advantage of personal contacts, would have a twofold value: the broadening of the...
Question of Self-Respect. Harold Ickes then held a spectacular press conference in the Interior Department's auditorium. His aides, newsmen, photographers and radiomen with recording apparatus swarmed in. In his crusty old voice he made his position doubly clear -either "I had forsworn myself and made false statements...
Up the Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn't the U.S.?
The Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had...