Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system is revived, Europe, once the center of Christian culture and world power, is "in danger of receding into its own glorious past." FORTUNE thinks the U.S. should wish Europe a brighter future, figures that European unification would 1) uphold Christendom; 2) eliminate some causes of war and thus prolong peace. The article shows how this unification can grow naturally from steps to be taken during the war. Specific goals: 1) A European Council of all continental members of the United Nations, plus Britain, Russia, the U.S. When the Council has put Europe on the track to federation...
...French Empires were fighting. They were there not for the sake of Tunisia; no one on that terrain was defending his doorstep-not directly. But Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make 1943 the decisive, if not final, year...
...Nazis' Bucharest radio was loudly urging the Russians to make a separate peace. Said the broadcaster in Russian: "Stalin is trying to prolong the war by promising his people help from the Allies. But the Russians have now seen that the Allies do not intend to give serious aid. The Anglo-American press openly repudiates all promises of further assistance; consequently the Russian people have grown angry, feeling they have been duped. Further extension of the war is nothing less than suicide for Russia...
Eliot House's championship eight meets its counterpart, Trumbull College of Yale, at New Haven today as the Crimson representatives seek to prolong the victory streak over the Elis which they started back...
...exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff will be allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts...