Word: tions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This picture of a class in the Suvorov Military Academy at Kalinin illustrates dominant features of Soviet education since Marshal Stalin abolished coeduca tion (TIME, Aug. 1 6). It is one of nine cadet schools named for the 18th century Russian Field Marshal Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov. Eligible for the school's seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history...
Olga Samaroff Stokowski, concert pianist, ex-wife of Conductor Leopold, proved herself the perfect wartime dinner guest: she brought along not only her ra tion book but also her cook...
...enter World War II because Britain would not grant the "just demands" of the Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from a Mussolini-bred national psychosis that Italy has al ways been kicked around, instead of being boosted by helping hands to No. 1 posi tion in the world. Its effectiveness could be judged by a recent flood of letters to Washington protesting the bombing of Italian cities...
...among Protestant churches, English and American Methodists have led the way by suggesting that their next conference be held jointly, as a prelude to corporate unity in 1950. Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung...
...Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...