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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small crowds at both Harvard and Yale saw debating teams from the schools divide the honors in a home-and-home debate last Friday evening on the question: "Resolved, That President Roosevelt should be elected to a fourth term." In each debate the affirmative side emerged triumphant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON, ELI DEBATERS SPLIT IN CONTESTS ON FOURTH TERM | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

From 1939 through late 1942, the London Governments in Exile made some neat progress in such constructive arrangements. But by 1943 Hitler had lost his war in the East, Soviet Russia had started her triumphant comeback. And regional federations were growled down by rising Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Art of Survival | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...idea for their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career by pretending to throw him over, but is last seen with him in triumphant Technicolor, smiling out of a harvest moon in Ziegfeld's 1907 Follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...need a new leader. A leader who does not hold in his mind bitter or triumphant memories of past conflicts. A leader who does not think of a nation as made up of groups of people who can be played against each other to insure his continuing power. ... A leader with malice toward none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Willkie on the Overland Limited | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...breakdown of the figures reveals that the Navy won all eight of the boxing bouts, gained a 46 to 20 margin in the swimming meet, and captured the basketball title 48 to 30. The Army was triumphant in wrestling, four matches to three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: V-12 TRIUMPHS IN SPORTS MEET | 2/11/1944 | See Source »

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