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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight in a Bus. Last spring General Revers was sent to investigate the French colonial war against the Communists in Indo-China. On his return he wrote a 60-page report to the government in which he made adverse comments on France's conduct in Indo-China. Somehow the report got into the hands of the Communists, as the worried French government learned last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...varsity hockey team will bump into a tough customer at the Arena tonight when it seeks to return to winning ways against the ever formidable skaters from BC. Game time is 9 p.m.; Tufts and MIT open the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Plays BC at Arena Tonight | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Never did I think when I began my religious life," he told his Argentina listeners, "that I would some day return to these microphones. But the life of the true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood. But I, who have had in abundance all that our youths dream of possessing, have come to say to you that all the world's gold, fame, power, applause and pleasure is not equivalent to one hour in the service of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...preserve incentives, N.A.M. wanted the U.S. to 1) abolish present excise taxes except on tobacco and liquor, and substitute a uniform manufacturer's excise tax on all end products excluding foods; 2) limit the 1951 budget to $33.6 billion (some $11 billion below present estimates); and 3) return to the gold standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Youth Be Served | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Fisherman, Lloyd Douglas Mary, Sholem Asch The Egyptian, Mika Waltari A Rage to Live, John O'Hara Point of No Return, John Marquand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: 1949 BESTSELLERS | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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