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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the U.S., Pertinax (real name: André Géraud) had lost none of his reputation for perspicacity. In New York and in Washington, whither he moved in 1943, he was often a better source on European politics than reporters in Europe. He was the first to predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over Mihailovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pertinax Goes Home | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Last week the Cuban crop was estimated at 4,500,000 tons. But no one was yet willing to predict that it would be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bitter End | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

What chance the old Managing Board has to recoup its set-back it is hard to discover. They still have an oar in officially, and sources associated with the "outs" say the situation is far from settled and predict a renewal of the fight this fall, with a possibility of two rival Specs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of College Newspaper at Stake In Columbia Spectator's Campus Battle | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Science of Guidance | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...fact that draft boards are still drafting all bright, healthy 18-year-olds, experts predict, will lower the quality of medical students for some time hence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: 12,000 Students | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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