Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson himself would be the last to take full credit for all this excitement-by & large, it was still another sign of the U.S.'s grim intention to win the war. Moreover, hundreds of plants (notably in the auto industry) that shied away from labor-management committees per se were using the same kind of ballyhoo and production incentives with equally good results. As all the U.S. well knows, there is nothing like good ballyhoo (see cut) to put a good basic urge to work...
Engaged. Prince Duarte Nuño, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Marie Thérèse, sister-in-law of the Comte de Paris, pretender to the throne of France...
Other men at such a meeting might have searched their minds for more memorable words. Not so Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt and Good Neighbor Manuel Prado Ugarteche of Peru. But it was a memorable occasion: Señor Prado was the first incumbent President of a South American country ever to visit Washington...
...mind, by contemplating other more pleasing figures. As summer ended, bathing girls, changeless in a changing world, paraded Argentine beaches competing for titles. Amid the crash of falling empires, the porteño rotogravure magazine Aqui Está (Here It Is) climactically chose a Queen, photographically fanfared (see cut) Señorita Leda Zorda as "Miss Summer 1942." To a world at war, however, Grizodubova (see p. 27) seemed more nearly appropriate as 1942's type...
...addition to these comparatively "old" innovations, however, there are such novel courses as Philosophy SE, the philosophical aspects of war issues and peace aims; English S190b, literature and democracy; and Sociology S3a, Man and Society in calamities...