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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Cry for Morals | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...students was stated as the prime consideration. The humor, which was to be different from that of any present College publication, was described by Shafer as an attempt to get away from the Lampoon style. The poetry was "definitely not to be esoteric," but on a simpler plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Stories Threatens Release of New Magazine | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday the society's five altruists arrived in the hall with adilades, plane tables, and ten pounds of surveying equipment, and the one hour later announced that the dining hall wasn't trapezoidal, but trapeziform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapezoid Tradition Gets Heave-Ho | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane to take him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Mayor's Lady | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...till next morning was he able to leave. Then he hustled Miss Simpson into his limousine, raced to the airport at 70 m.p.h., and flew off in the police plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Mayor's Lady | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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