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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Hell." Last week, in a debate with Bryan before 1,500 bellicose voters, he did. Out for emotional exercise, the crowd heckled Bryan until Marcantonio shushed them with the remark: "Tomorrow it will be reported . . . that Marcantonio had his hoodlums here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Veto Vito? | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...critical eye until the hard charging line roared into the girls' backfield. With their wits about the, however, the swivel hipped runners were, as always, hard to lay a hand on and managed to wile their way touchdownward. "Skidmore'll be a pushover," one bedungareed spectator was heard to remark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fleet 'Cliffewomen Escape Grasps Of Funsters on Perfumed Gridiron | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

With a final remark on yesterday's effort that "You can't ask any better than the improvement shown today," Jaakko said that he was hopeful about the pay-off meet with Yale and Princeton next Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Conquered By Dartmouth Squad, 19-41 | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

...general consensus of date-takers among those guardians of antiquity seems to be that, "Girls love it." One dour model T man was heard to remark traitorously, however, "The engine makes so much noise, a woman's hearse before she gets home...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Horseless Carriages Back to Spew Flame on Carless Postwar World | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

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