Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly also put Italian Somaliland (pop. 915,000) under a ten-year Italian trusteeship, to be followed by full independence. The fate of Eritrea, Italy's third former colony, which Ethiopia would like to annex, will be considered later, after a U.N. commission makes a firsthand study...
...given. Gradually, the Great Books were worked into the courses, until this year they are 75% of the reading for the B.A. It was not all that Hutchins could have wanted, but it was close-an education not of books about books, but one which places ideas over facts, firsthand knowledge over secondhand interpretations, theory over practice...
...through whom TIME told part of the story of World War II, reads like a rollcall of the war years: Leahy, Alexander, Gort, Tedder, Doolittle, Montgomery, Spaatz, Spruance, Eisenhower, Wainwright, Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific...
Thanks to LIFE Photographer John Phillips, TIME and LIFE had a firsthand news and picture story on Yugoslavia's beleagured-and hard to see -Marshal Tito in their Sept. 12 issues. Phillips has had the Marshal's confidence from the time he made a long, grueling march with a Yugoslav Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito...
John Mecklin, TIME'S Ottawa bureau chief, turned in 22,000 words of firsthand reporting for our Sept. 12 cover story on Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. He had two long sessions with St. Laurent (the most time the Prime Minister has given to any publication since taking office), another with ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who fed him tea, toast, and honey made by his own bees...