Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly Russian strategy now called for external aggression short of war against any soft spot in the non-Communist lines, and aggression from within against any soft spot in the non-Communist head...
...President's suggestion was far from a complete solution. Voluntary campaigns in the U.S. have a tendency to excite large numbers of people for a short time, but to produce few concrete results. Most Americans would probably neither eat less nor waste less until their pocketbooks forced them...
...greatest danger to the peace lies with this increasing emphasis on sheer economic and military power. A disagreement on German economic reconstruction, the collision over American aid to Greece and Turkey, and the enervating process of finding a suitable peace treaty all point up a short-sighted conflict of material interests which is ultimately more dangerous than a difference over political theories. Ideological name calling will hardly lead to a third world war, but the intense and ultimate clash of interests and ambitions must be resolved if peace can be secured...
Maybe they were keeping in trim with the coach and the Wallula campers, because they took a short leave of absence to register some runner-up points at the State meet at Manchester. Last year's captain Watkins took second in the 100-yard freestyle, and Woods, who broke two records when the Freshmen topped Yale, followed in Dave Murray, former Crimson backstroke, in the 150-yard backstroke. In the same meet Chuck Hoeizer, in repitition of many an occasion last winter, led the breast-strokers to the tape...
...Radcliffe, '49, thinks that a moderate length will be adopted by college girls. "Thirteen or 14 inches from the ground is quite enough for daytime wear," she said. "Tall girls will discover that skirts well below the knee are graceful and flattering to them, but extreme length will make short girls look henny...