Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety percent of the students who are dissatisfied with the return they are getting on their $15 fee are just plain fed up with incompetent attention. May I cite two incidents from my personal history...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
...real fight remained and would continue to be waged right up to Election Day-the fight for control of the Senate (TIME, Oct. 11). It was still such a dingdong race in twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much...
...George Marshall boarded his plane to return to Paris, a Greek newsman commented : "There goes the wisest statesman who has come to Greece in a long time. He promised nothing-and didn't try to tell us that the situation was fine...
Dusty Burke, effective little defensive quarterback, sat out the game with a torn knee ligament received in last week's game with Holy Cross. Burke will probably return to the lineup this Friday when the Freshmen meet Boston University in their next game...