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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairy tales, like more solemn reports, have their implications and their moral, TIME wishes to make it clear that it admires and respects our heroically, recognizes great mutuality of interests between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.-but that in any argument between Communism and Democracy, TIME is on the side of Democracy...
Millions watched from windows as an eerie silence settled over the city. Traffic had stopped. Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon, side streets were choked by thousands of stalled cabs, busses and trucks. Parkways were dotted with white mounds, each of which marked an abandoned automobile. Broadway's enormous electric signs made only a wan glow in the gloom. The Queen Mary, and other liners which had canceled sailings, hugged North River piers with their decks heaped with snow...
When Italy turned up on the winning side in World War I, Victor Emmanuel reached modest heights of popularity. His subjects referred to him (fondly, at first) as il piccolo-The Little...
During its whole visit, the comet acted as if it wanted to dodge human observation. Astronomer Leland E. Cunningham of the University of California, who worked out its orbit from data collected in Australia, reported that it slipped out of space on the far side of the sun. Sweeping around the sun within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible...
...said old father Ruskin happily. "I would rather be your Mother," old Mts. Ruskin assured her son, "than the mother of the greatest of Kings or Heroes past or present." "They have got him now," said Painter Millais (who married Effie a year later) , "and will keep on either side of him like the two outside horses in the Edinburgh omnibuses, who always suggested . . . that they were taking [the middle horse] to the station-house-let us hope that this may not be realized in the case of poor...