Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State George C. Marshall's policy of splendid isolation from the China civil war had led to a deadlock: neither the Government nor the Communists had enough strength for a knockout punch. As the opposing forces clinched wearily last week, China, bled white by the long struggle, took a new breath. The U.S.'s three-star General Albert C. Wedemeyer was on the way to see what could be done to retrieve the losses that followed from five-star General Marshall's indecisive decision...
...Your splendid article on Alaska [TIME, June 16], with the cover showing the 49th star [with question mark] . . . gives warranted attention to the Territory of Alaska and its capable and energetic Governor, Ernest Gruening-energetic, advisedly, for he was recently my partner in tennis, and he plays a bang-up game with a Harvard accent...
...turf-covered plain near Delhi, a splendid assemblage gathered Jan. 1, 1877. The High Officers and Ruling Chiefs of India took their seats behind a gilt railing in an amphitheater of blue, white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to their feet as a flourish of trumpets announced the arrival, across 800 feet of red carpet, of His Excellency the Viceroy, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save...
Congratulations on the splendid photo of "French Children, 1947," which serves to point up the lead article of your May 19th issue...
CONGRATULATIONS ON HIGH QUALITY OF ARTICLE ON CHEN LI-FU [TIME, MAY 26]. IT IS THE FIRST INTELLIGENT STUDY OF THAT IMPORTANT FIGURE. CONGRATULATIONS TO [CORRESPONDENT] FREDERICK GRUIN FOR HIS SPLENDID WORK...