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Several beautiful examples of other types of wares complete the collection. Among them are ten pieces from the tombs of the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), including two slender tomb figurines about a foot high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Precious Chinese Jade Collection Given By Danes | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

...Labor Party voted unanimously for a post-war planned economy with nationalization of Britain's basic industries and services, including natural resources, transport and farm land. Keynoter for this resolution was keen, slender Economist Harold Laski. Said he: "We seek to end a system in which the many are the slaves of the few. We seek to end a system which makes ordinary men and women not ends in themselves, but means to the ends of others. We seek in this war, after victory, not a return to the Old World, but quite precisely the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Leftward the Course | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...excellent coaching this summer, as Varsity coach, Tom Bolles, and Freshman coach, Harvey Love, are going to devote their talents to the House eights. Inexperienced upperclassmen will be able to start from scratch in the "Leviathan" with the new Freshmen instead of going right into one of the slender shells. There is a chance that the Union Boat Club will organize a summer regatta in which the House crews will participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG ATHLETIC PLAN SET FOR THIS SUMMER | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

...outstanding Congress party member who favored accepting Britain's offer is slender, intellectual Chakravarti Rajago-palachariar ("C.R." for short), Congress leader in Madras. Last week, as Madras calmed down after its first panic before the Japanese terror, C.R.'s section of Congress suggested that Congress leaders sit down to discuss wartime and governmental problems with the leaders of the Moslem League. Said the declaration: "It is impossible for the people to think in terms of neutrality or passivity during invasion by an enemy power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: C. R. Follows Cripps | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...DeLee was a pioneer in obstetrical movies. Many of his devoted students who had just come from the Chicago funeral saw the gentle, goateed, slender man with the dark, alert eyes once again at the Congress-in one of his movies. The film instructed doctors on breech presentation (buttocks or feet first instead of head). Dr. DeLee made 16 such movies, paying half the expense of all of them. He always looked for a pretty blonde mother to take the leading role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death of DeLee | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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