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Marie-Jose, Italy's last Queen (for 26 days in 1946), went to Switzerland from Portugal for eye-doctoring. Paraly sis of the optic nerve threatened her with blindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...line with his argument that the problem is one of proper leadership and not a new system, he makes sis specific suggestions preceded by the statement that. "No one can deny that there was an abundance of poor leadership, but a recitation of grievances is fruitless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Pleads 'A Case for Caste' In Law Record's Article on Brass | 8/9/1946 | See Source »

...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U.B.C.--Sis-Boom-Ah | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Dear Sis," he wrote, "... I think we will make another trip to Iceland before we go to the Navy Yards. I sure hope I can come home on leave even if it is only for a few days. . . . We sure don't get much time in any more. . . . We are here only until Thursday morning and then back to Portland. From there I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Reuben James to Davy Jones | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...alert let go its giant banshee wail-"Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!"-a dreadful, penetrating warble, like no other sound on earth. A boy's voice said: "Don't worry, sis, I'll look after you. We'll get in the air-raid shelter just like the practice at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME FRONT: Terrible Bombings | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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