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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their loss, coupled, with Butler's would weaken Harvard's defensive setup. Drvaric and Butler are defensive guards, Coulson plays at one of the defensive flanks, and Garvey operates at tackle on defense...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Valpey Shifts Bolster from End to Passer | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...Former National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams, now publisher of the Southern Farmer, called on Henry Wallace to "repudiate the [Progressive Party] and come on back home." His reason: Wallace "is being used to weaken and defeat the efforts of the U.S. to reach an understanding with Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Pot Boils, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...that some of our people made untimely remarks. [But] we must mention that some Soviet military experts didn't always behave as they should . . . In our trade relations . . . we do not deny there was neglect on our part . . . However, we cannot believe that could be sufficient reason to weaken our economic cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Chiang flew on to Sian, summoned an emergency conference of his top military men. The entire Central China front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sinking Patient | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...high officer of the Social Democratic Party said: "The Communists may try their tricks, but you will see, here we can control the workers." One of his colleagues said: "You think we'll weaken, but you don't know Finlanders." And then he added an echo of pure 1939: "We aren't Czechs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO SMALL: TOO SMALL | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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