Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could Formosa be held? The answer seemed to be that it could, and with a relatively small force. Ninety miles of water lie between Formosa and the mainland. Mao Tse-tung has no navy, no air power, no amphibious forces. Its occupation would demonstrate to all of Asia the determination of the U.S. to stand fast. So ran the argument...
They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...poll taken by the Council last year, 2582 students voted. They favored an expert, impartial investigation of the dining system, four to one. They approved the nutritional variety of the food by a small majority, but were dissatisfied with the lack of variety in individual foods, temperature of hot items, and the lack of imagination in planning...
Radcliffe will welcome its first faculty affiliates at a formal dinner inaugurating the new plan at 7 p.m. next Friday in Moors Hall, Dean of Residence Mary Small '40 announced yesterday...
Great credit is due to Sam V. K. Willson who leaned back in his seat throughout, directing both the onstage and pit choruses. The stage being very small, he found it necessary to keep a majority of the dragoons and rapturous maidens seated in the pit. The idea was a great success. It not only left the stage uncluttered, but it provided the necessary volume for the chorus parts...