Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of a situation so complicated and hard to define. Generalizations are never in order under circumstances such as we find in the turmoil in which Germany finds itself today. I shall often refer to this issue as I am called upon to report on my work of the past two years...
...month by month choices (some of which appear on this page with their illustrations) make up the calendar-card we are sending this year to people who will receive gift subscriptions to TIME. Perhaps they will remind you of favorite TIME stories of years past-just as this Christmas issue of TIME, with its account of how Americans and others are moving into the Christmas of 1949, may recall our Christmas stories of other years...
Idle or disaffected Nationalist soldiers, whose unruly behavior had outraged Formosans in the past, have been disarmed and put to work preparing defenses on the shallow, sandy beaches that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...
...South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...
...books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book...