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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 2⅓ divisions in reserve in the U.S., was already curtailing its draft schedule. The problem was up to the JCS and the U.S. people. They now had Douglas MacArthur's word for it that, one way or another, the U.S. could not escape sharing the cost of Nationalist China's defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: A Familiar Rumble | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...capital a newly appointed minister was interviewing two applicants for a job. Each claimed a simon-pure record in the party. "Look here," boasted Boris, "I've been to Moscow three times. I've been a party member for 26 years and I've read every word that Karl Marx ever wrote." "That's nothing," crowed Nikolai, "I was a Resistance leader. I fought in the underground. I have a signed letter from Lenin, and I've been a party member since the day I was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...word or two is in order from me in view of the personal attack which Robert C. Fisher '51 saw fit to incorporate into his public resignation from the HYRC yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Refutes Fisher Charges | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

...feet are more distinctively human than his apelike hands. But he doesn't pay much attention to his feet, and he doesn't think very highly of foot doctors. Podiatry (a newer and more popular word than chiropody) is not yet recognized as a part of organized medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Best Foot Forward | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...council also stenghtened regional rulings on summer baseball, and stated that any student playing in organized baseball would "forfeit," his college eligibility. The former ruling used the word, "jeopardize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Athletic Provisions Will Not Affect College | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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