Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doors of the University of Tokyo's Oceanographic Institute, a U.S. Navy captain found a poster, lettered in English...
...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
There's one born every minute, Barnum said. And the Class of 1949 (summer installment) seems of its way to back up the claim, what with Monday evening's response to very unofficial official poster announcing a compulsory meeting for the all new Freshmen as the result of "a deplorable lack of Harvard spirit...
Sixty would be Yardlings turned up at New Lecture Hall at the appointed hour, 8 'o clock in the evening. When nothing came off, 25 of the disappointed lads decided to gain revenge on Harvey Lyon '49, listed on the poster as "student assistant" to "Dean Kronum," fictitious signee to the poster; but Lyon, too, it appears, was a victim of the successful gagster...
...nonetheless, episodic. Hollywood's Adano, despite an unlimited camera horizon, also manages to be episodic. Its views of shell-struck Adano are convincing enough, and its opening jeep's-eye discovery of the torn little town, with a mocking glimpse beyond shattered walls of a poster of Mock-Hero Mussolini, is excellent. But the people of Adano, despite a few good characterizations, are as un-Italian as so many Americans...