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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this summer--assisting and advising the Chinese lawyers who are compiling a National Legal Code. While he was in China Professor Pound acquired, along with a hearty respect for the ability of its jurists, such an excellent reading knowledge of Chinese that when he was unable to translate a word from that language to English, he found his Chinese friends were stumped also...

Author: By W. P., | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/10/1946 | See Source »

Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...

Author: By Douglass Cater, | Title: Russian, French, Moslem Students Make Congress Colorful Gathering | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

There is no word for immigration in Hebrew, and so "aliyah" meaning "the going up" is always used. This refers to the going up from Egypt to the Promised Land, described in Exodus. "Every one must first make the Exodus from Egypt to really appreciate Palestine" said Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization...

Author: By Mendy Weisgal, | Title: Curfew Changed Modern Tel Aviv To 'City of Dead,' Weisgal Reports | 10/8/1946 | See Source »

Numerous minor bruises sustained included broken noses suffered by tackle Eddie Davis and quarterback Frank Miklos, and head injuries to tackle Mal Allen and fullback Vince Moravec. The medicos will give the word on these doubtful cases today...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: O'Donnell Lost for Several Weeks As Crimson Rolls Over Tufts Team | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...convention last summer and which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal Union has done much to clear the surcharged atmosphere surrounding undergraduate political groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Liberal Crisis | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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