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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin its rival and sabotage partition of the sub-continent. Foreign Minister Khan, unlike other representatives of accused nations wants to reach an agreement, not merely air the difficulties, fail his opponents with verbose charges, solemnly declare for peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Meeting of Minds | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...inane inclination of the average American to ... almost genuflect at the presence of a European title, phony or otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Ginny" came out. All season, tall, bangsy Virginia Leigh, 17, had kept Manhattan society reporters in a dither. Not since Brenda Frazier had a sub-deb been so well managed; Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Faculty consideration of the mid-term grading set-up will be pushed up to a later date in order to give a special four-man Council sub-committee sufficient time to determine student and faculty reaction to the projected abolition of the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Postpones Decision on Grades System Until April 1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Members of the mediating group include Lawrence Jaffa 2D, New England Regional Chairman of NSA and chairman of the sub-committee which drew up the terms of affiliation; Donald Fraser, of the University of Minnesota: Martin McLaughlin, of Notre Dame: and William Birenbaum, of the University of Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Will Vote on European Merger | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

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