Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When men from the spring term return Monday, the situation will be closer to normal, since approximately 1140 are expected back. The total undergraduate enrollment in the College will...
...people are divided into three main tribes: the tough Moslem Hausas who live along the lower edge of the Sahara and despise the southern Nigerians; the town-dwelling Yorubas; and the farming Ibos. Mutual antagonism, sometimes exploited by the British, has kept the tribes apart. Since Zik's return, however, there has been a rapprochement. Zik, an Ibo, now wears a combination of Hausa and Yoruba style clothes to symbolize the new trend...
Paula Hoffman, a TIME researcher, took a trip home to her native Austria after an absense of eight years. On her return to the U.S. she wrote...
...land that his family has held since colonial times, a big textile factory at Los Chillos, not far from Quito. At Los Chillos, he explains, "great-grandsons of the people who first worked for our family there" receive pieces of land to cultivate, along with some pay, in return for factory labor. On ceremonial occasions, the workers, who must go to Mass and Communion regularly, kiss Jijén's hand and even his arm up to the shoulder...
Such frenzied advertising flashes, emitted largely by the radio and Sunday newspaper comic section ads, have heralded the postwar return of "premiums," the somewhat mysterious business in which everything from atomic rings to nylon stockings can be bought at cut prices with the proper number of box tops, soap wrappers, etc. Ever since 1851, when Benjamin Talbot Babbitt, the father of packaged soap, got the idea of offering sentimental chromos for 25 Babbitt's Best Soap wrappers, premiums have helped sell thousands of items...