Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center of the atom blast. It looked as if defeat and a confused postwar world were transforming the Emperor of Japan into the Emperor of the Japanese...
...rate was 14.6 per 1,000 population. It has risen to 19.6. Reported Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly 1,000,000, is now back to its prewar size...
When Dean Acheson took over as Secretary of State, latinos looked for a new pitch to U.S.-Latin American policy. For the past two years, cautious Careerman Paul Daniels, director of the State Department's Office of American Republic Affairs, had been left pretty well alone with the responsibility. His policy had been a policy of drift...
...name Mr. Cohen's alleged Communist associates. To clear himself with the Provost, Mr. Cohen submitted a four-page statement of his political credo. He also felt forced to report to Provost Furniss, down to the most minute details, every political activity he had engaged in over the past four years...
James G. Duccy '43, Assistant Registrar, who coached the Mastedona, spoke gleefully about "his wealth of material." He had two full boats and a handful of reserves during the past season. Nearly all his candidates had previous rowing experience and some were varsity castoffs...