Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university's prime benefactors. The first of these is, of course, Senator Stanford. He is regularly honored on Founder's Day, a Stanford holiday. The other is Herbert Hoover, the school's leading alumnus. Long a member of the Board of Trustees, he sponsored the Hoover Memorial Library of War, Revolution, and Peace, the university's land-mark...
Stanford was once considered a "rich mans" school, but like Harvard, it now has students from all income brackets. It rose to the demand of World War II's veterans by almost doubling its enrollment to 8000. The position of a student working his way through the college is considerably eased by a university policy of providing many money earning opportunities for students. There is no social stigma attached to such work, for the late president, Donald B. Tresidder, as well as many student leaders, followed that same route...
SALZBURG, Austria--When the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies began three years ago here, it had the dual purpose of furnishing accurate information about the United States to European students, and increasing the communication between European countries, seriously disrupted by the war...
...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 could not be answered...
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...