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...brightest spot in Truman's pre-Senate record, was soon followed by the saddest. With a soldier buddy and $15,000 saved and borrowed, he opened a haberdashery on Kansas City's sporty Twelfth Street, roamed behind the counters selling socks, neckties and garters. In twelve months the store went broke, with debts it took years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Watchdog | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...polls. It is something you can find in yourselves. If, like some young men of the stricken nations, you look to a false security--if you count on an easy victory--if you think of doing something but not too much for the war--you may face the saddest of all fates: you may die, but die in vain, because you do not die soon or well enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS MARKED BY AXIS SAYS GREW | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

...Saddest news contained in the huge envelope presented to every Freshman will be the first term bill, increased from the usual quarter, plus half the infirmary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 680 MORE FRESHMEN REGISTER TODAY | 9/25/1942 | See Source »

Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av (July 23 in 1942), is the saddest day in the Jewish year. Dating from the destruction of the First Temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, it also commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus, the expulsion of Jews from Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tisha b'Av | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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