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Word: pledgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"And that's not all." The venerable founder waved his hand, and the grey stone towers of Yale hove into sight. Vag found himself suspended invisibly but comfortably over a long table in the office of the Yale Student Council. Green bills were piled in little heaps on the table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/15/1941 | See Source »

Harvard. Said the new editors of the once-isolationist Crimson last week: "Isolationists like Chicago's Hutchins hold .. . that America is not mentally mature enough to make entry in the War worth the cost-that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Switch | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Britain's speed-up was typically Russian. During the week tank factories all over the country increased production 20% above previous weeks. BBC sounded like the Moscow radio: "A South Wales factory has already turned out more guns for tanks than was believed possible in the time. A factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MORALE: Tanks and Thanks to Russia | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

All was not apples for the Administration. One Legionnaire had fun with a version of the Pledge of Allegiance: "I pledge subservience to the present Administration, and to the public debt for which it stands; one family insufferable, with divorces and captaincies for all." And most unanimous applause of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Legion Strikes A Blow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

The best answers to these cynics are the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter which in Article IV pledges a workable post war world economy and the meeting next month in Washington of Vice-President Wallace with Sir Leith-Ross which will give substance to that pledge. Plans will be made to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharpening the Fourth Point | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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