Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown is TIME'S only subscriber on Raiatea, a high green island just 120 miles 'northwest of Tahiti, and ever since Pearl Harbor he has been getting anywhere from 12 to 16 issues of our Overseas Edition the same day-by steamer from San Francisco to Tahiti, by little inter-island schooner from Tahiti to Raiatea. And when the mail comes...
...father of his people has joined many sons in final sacrifice for country. Like the Ensign who died at Pearl Harbor, like those who have left Cambridge and will not return, he was a son of Harvard. A world mourns the loss of a leader. Harvard, alma matter, says a last good-bye to a member of the Class of 1904. To the world he leaves the beginnings of freedom; to Harvard he leaves honor...
Inching through the Balete Pass, south of Baguio, was Major General Charles L. Mullings' 25th Division, which was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and has been in the Pacific ever since. Behind these veterans were Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella. Ahead of them, seven exasperating miles filled with Japs fighting from caves, was Baguio. Pushing in from the west, over the same kind of country, at the same pace, against the same stiff opposition, were Swift's other divisions, the 32nd and 33rd...
Although immediately after Pearl Harbor the government began to expand its plans for synthetic rubber, President Conant asserted that without gasoline rationing the country would have met with disaster in its tire supply for civilian necessities...
They were born in the U.S. and, until Pearl Harbor, had therefore enjoyed all the blessings of citizenship. They had gone to the public schools, voted, earned a living. Some of them had friends or relatives in the U.S. armed forces. But last week these 6,000-odd U.S. Japanese were busy renouncing their citizenship to swear allegiance to Emperor Hirohito...