Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchuria (the sine qua non of a strong, independent China) were brighter last week than at any time since liberation. Yet the news from China was bad-appallingly bad. China was hurtling into economic disaster and political anarchy. Its causes: 1) Communist rebellion; 2) failure of the U.S. to send enough prompt aid; 3) the corrupt inefficiency of the National Government. Last week TIME Correspondent William Gray took a long, hard look at China. His report...
Married. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C., 43, pint-sized hero of Wake Island, who dryly denies that he ever radioed "Send us more Japs"; and Rachel Clarke Cooke, thirty-fiveish, ex-Junior Leaguer; he for the second time (his first wife died while he was in prison camp), she for the first; in Baltimore...
...result of a preliminary investigation by the Unitarian Service Committee it has been decided not to send food to the University at Grenoble, France. Instead, the Council will concentrate for the moment on the University of Vienna, where, according to the Unitarians' report, the need for aid is most pressing...
...urging food-saving, the Council polled the undergraduate body on the advisability of cutting portions here to buy for the starving abroad. An overwhelmingly favorable response enabled the College dining halls to save about $750 a week by omitting extra cookies, desserts, bread, and cereals. And when asked to send a delegate for New England to an International Students' Conference at Prague, the College voiced a strong affirmative in another Council poll...
...Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...