Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case) in which five were sent to prison; the first wartime spy case-a New York City ring of nine German-Americans who were sentenced to a total of 132 years in prison. Later, Lawyer Sonnett went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander, spent ten months investigating the Pearl Harbor attack for Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Last week, red-eyed from sleeplessness, he was determined i) to leave John Lewis no chance to argue that he had not had a fair hearing...
This morning, five years after they bombed Pearl Harbor, the Japanese people are going to the polls in a democratically conducted election under the tutelage of an Allied occupation. The election, and especially the bored but watchful GIs who will be in charge, are symbolic of phases of the occupation that have been all too soon forgotten in America, where geisha houses, fraternization, and the war crimes trials are the bulk of newspaper coverage of Japan. To fill this gap in our knowledge, presumably, "Life" last week spewed forth a "Report on Japan" by a Senior writer called Busch. Sweeping...
...last time Harvard and Yale met together on a field called Soldier's to play football it was November, 1941, and Pearl Harbor stood in the wings waiting for her December cue. In a sense, that game was a capstone of the Years Between the Wars, of the World as it Used to Be. Before the war engulfed them both, the two schools played one more, as anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from...
...Pearl Harbor here," remarked Egbert V. Edgemont '50 yesterday, as he bolted all the windows of his ground floor Wigglesworth room in step with more official preparations...
...Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also to be one of the city's most...