Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Pearl Harbor this letter has followed the news spotlight overseas; we have told you much about our battlefront and foreign affairs coverage, and about the correspondents responsible for it. Now, after four long years away, the spotlight has shifted to U.S. affairs-to the problems of returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
Other great powers have always maintained espionage systems along with their armies and navies. The U.S., with a mixture of trust and indifference, never has-outside of cracking codes and listening to teacup gossip at foreign embassies. That historical innocence, which ended in the fiasco of Pearl Harbor, is now gone...
...jewel box empty, set her loss at $15,000. Among the 16 whim whams missing: 1) a diamond-&-ruby ring (one kite diamond, one 32-karat diamond, 28 bluewhite diamonds, four rubies), 2) a pair of earrings (34 white diamonds, eight baguette diamonds, 3) a diamond-&-topaz ring (18 pearl-shaped diamonds, 46 blue-white diamonds), 4) a bracelet watch (30 white diamonds, twelve small rubies). Any clue...
Fortunately for most of them, and tragically for a few, American college students, even those who had signed the Oxford Pledge, emptied the temples of the higher learning after Pearl Harbor, and especially after the 18-year-old draft law was passed in the autumn of 1942. Enrollment plunged to a low of 671 in the College...
Madame Butterfly was having its first showing since the Met packed it away in mothballs after Pearl Harbor, afraid that the public would resent watching B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, U.S.N., caddishly deceive the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. Puccini's Pinkerton still sang...