Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Example. In Winnipeg, Man., after he had finished writing a series of articles on pickpockets for the Winnipeg Tribune, Reporter Harold Miloff went to the police with a complaint: the material for his fourth article had been picked from his pocket...
...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
President Conant then went on to reaffirm the "no inquiry" policy set forth by Grenville Clark in letters published in the Alumni Bulletin this week...
...current edition is a "war to peace" revision of the 1940 edition. Over 10,000 postcards went out last fall requesting address changes, and by April 35,000 had been returned. 7645 postcards have been due since 1940, and the Directory lists these 7645 men as "lost" alumni...
Every day our mail brings at least one new invitation (inside two envelopes) and we inevitably find it a dismal experience to open it and discover who went this time. Not only does it mean something else that must be answered, not only does it involve further financial sacrifice, not only does it mean the loss of a drinking companion--from a purely objective point of view means that some unsuspecting sentimentalist is voluntarily signing away his freedom...