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Word: rasmussen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most nearly approaches the undergraduate literary norm. Bowden Broadwater's "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon" will be familiar to all Advocate readers, and the criticisms for unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits it for praise too often...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting a labor battalion of blacksmiths, masons, carpenters, metal workers, farm hands. Nearly 10,000 signed up, at $60 a month, before the recruiting office had to close for clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Planes, Men, Medicine, Soap | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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