Word: recent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro's alert news sense comes naturally. If he were not the University's able and alert Counsellor for Veterans, he would probably be a newspaperman. As undergraduate leader of the most daring journalistic venture in recent Harvard history, end later as a staffer in the News Office, he seemed headed, before the war, for a permanent berth in the Fourth Estate. Four years of administrative responsibility on an aircraft carrier made all the difference and put the erstwhile leg-man behind a desk once...
...Recent weeks have shown that Frenchmen can be lulled into thinking that, after all, there might be no disagreeable problem to solve. The drama of the French Communists, pointed up by the week's events, is this: that Western firmness compels Moscow to compel the French Reds to show their true colors. Strangely tragic -but not pitiable-figures, the French Communists are thereby forced to encompass their own destruction...
...arriving in Portland and Salem newspaper offices. Here was a question of academic freedom, the letters hinted, which reporters should investigate. After that, the rumpus began. By last week, the firing of Chemist Ralph Spitzer and Economist L. R. La Vallee showed signs of becoming as celebrated as the recent dismissals at the University of Washington (TIME...
Unionists muttered crossly that the cuts were "piddling," compared to G.M.'s recent boosts of $42 and $150 on its 1949 models. (Actually, G.M. will have no net savings on labor costs, as it will give a 3?-an-hour increase in May under its union contract.) Nevertheless, G.M. had shut off any union complaint about the pay cut-and it had outfoxed other motormakers, notably Chrysler Corp...
...Matthiessen, professor of English Literature, spent a summer at the Seminar, and published a description of it in his recent book. "From the Heart of Europe." He wrote, "It was the greatest teaching experience I have ever had and ever hope to have...