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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms this fall, with V-12 men off from the end of the examination period on October 21 to November 5, a Sunday. Civilians are due for 15 days of free time, from October 21 to November 6, on which day they will return and register for the winter tri-mester. These figures are a minimum, and do not include extra time offered by early examination schedules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Vacation Will Be 15 Days For Civilians, 2 Weeks for V-12 | 8/18/1944 | See Source »

...Lynn has been doing leg exercises, and turns up very well as a not-so-brutish younger sister who can rally sing and play the piano. The girl ought to go far. Mimi Chandler seems to have been inserted solely to differentiate the Angels four from the many feminine tri-vocal ensembles. No other reason is apparent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/1/1944 | See Source »

...home everyone was on pins & needles. The papers were filled with accounts of the murder by a tri-sexualist of his wife, his boy friend and himself. Eleanor Roosevelt said we must have faith. Mayor LaGuardia urged New Yorkers not to panic. Arthur Krock wrote a story based on a report from a high official who could not be quoted. When the President was finally asked just what was cooking, he said everyone must be patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peace at Sea | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...emphasize again that [the tri-power European Advisory Commission] is an advisory, not an executive, body. . . . It is a piece of machinery set up for the convenience of the three Governments. It is not an instrument for imposing their views on others. [But] on . . . these three powers principally . . . will lie the responsibility for insuring that this war be followed by lasting peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Common Interest | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coup | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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