Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms. A three-day radio barrage hammered out an anti-Chiang theme built around oft-repeated symbols of "reactionaries," "war criminals," and "running dogs of American imperialism." The big guns of Communist artillery then poured shells into Tientsin, North China's leading industrial and commercial city, where a quarter of a million men had been conscripted to build defense works...
Cries & Convictions. Last week, the wind was howling hard enough in Chicago to blow any man down, and from a somewhat unexpected quarter. Most fellow musicians had kept their opinions to themselves when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad hit the comeback trail, two years ago, after merely accepting life in occupied Norway (TIME, Dec. 27). But when word got around that Furtwangler would be coming too, they set up an angry cry that could be heard all the way to Vienna...
...young Russian opened the door and said, "Good day." The man in the partisan officer's uniform entered and went straight to the rickety table in the center of the room. Carefully following the agreed formula, he laid out the things he had brought-five potatoes here, a quarter-pound of tea in the center, a handful of raisins to the left. Then the visitor nervously repeated the words of the code: "Your friend Sasha asked me to pay you my respects and to thank you for your kindness to his mother." The Russian quickly gave the set reply...
...Norris will swim his specialty, the quarter-mile, during the day's festivities. He looks certain to win. In the dive, Gordon Weir will back Tom Drohan, who will be making his last appearance for Harvard. For the 400-yard freestyle relay, a quartet will be placed together out of Shop Brown, Mort Hull, Bill MacVicar, Bob Burke, Bob Lang, and Art Sicular...
Tufts was still making a contest of it up until the midpoint of the third quarter but then the Crimson went on a scoring spree from which Tufts never recovered...