Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a long-standing custom here at TIME for our overseas correspondents, most of whom are American-trained journalists, to return to their native U.S. at frequent intervals for firsthand conversations with TIME'S editors and a reacquaintance with the changing American scene and idiom. Seldom, however, do we have a chance to greet a correspondent who is visiting the U.S. for the first time...
Last week, by what the Chinese press called polite insubordination, Pai rudely defied the Gimo. He ignored an order to send one of his armies to the Huai River front, where the Communists were attacking less than 100 miles north of Nanking. He even requested the return of two armies he had previously "lent" to Chiang. Rumors swept Nanking that crafty Pai was delaying river-borne supplies to the capital, that he was shifting troops southward to fortify his lao chia (old home) in Kwangsi. If true, it would be a severe blow to Nationalist hopes of holding the Yangtze...
...Never to Return." Many were forced to become Christians. It was said of the converts, however, that, as soon as they were baptized, they went home to wash off the holy water and that they secretly practiced their old religion. A saying of the day held: "There are three ways of wasting water-by the running of a river to the sea, by diluting wine, and by baptizing...
...would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes ... we have decided to command all of the aforesaid Jews, men and women, to leave our Kingdoms and never to return to them...
...that a faculty member becomes an authority, adds uniqueness to his teaching contribution, feeds his own intellectual curiosity." The Administration has put this opportunity into the hands of its younger men, and, with an additional gesture of magnaminity, it states that the assistant professor has no formal obligation to return to Harvard when his leave...