Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upwards of 1000 delegates, representing 800,000 students in 307 member colleges and universities, packed the University of Illinois campus at Urbana this summer for the second annual congress of the National Student Association...
...Germany the Military Government helped to form student parliaments in 1946. Zonal council were formed by summer, 1948, in each of the occupation zones...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...
...Another summer enigma revolved around the Kremlin's new foe, Tito of Yugoslavia. Was Tito really Russia's foe or was this war of words well rehearsed? Should this country put a Communist dictatorship on the dole, and if so, for which reason: because Tito spat at Stalin or because Tito needed help...
...student could throttle his biases. If it is at all possible to study these new questions reasonably, then this University community is the place. Away from the picketlines and with the headlines tucked inside a notebook, perhaps we shall be able to unscramble some of the questions raised this summer, when the heat...