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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School on the Hill | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State three weeks ago, a mining engineer hauled up a drill-core laden with ore from a 6,000-ft. test borehole. In Johannesburg Essayists announced that on the basis of the sample, the gold ore under Erfdeel ("Inheritance") farm might be worth as much as $18,000 a ton. It was the richest strike in South Africa's golden history, and on South African and London exchanges it touched off the wildest boom in gold shares in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Free State Fiasco | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...American correspondents had their own final drill with him. Leaning comfortably against the upholstery of his private railroad car, General Clay looked back on his four grinding, controversial years as a 20th Century proconsul. A unified Germany, he thought, is now inevitable, but there must be another five to 20 years of gradually tapering Allied occupation. As for the Russians, he warned that an East-West agreement on Berlin should not be confused with "a permanent solution to the struggle between communism and democracy." Said Clay: "I don't think that implies war. War would never solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: End of a Chapter | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

HONEST JOHNSHREWD STEVE CLOCKER SPANIELLE CHALK CONSENSUS Dole Dole Agrarian-U Lawiess Dole (class enough) (beat better) (all the way) standout at Lincoin Agrarian-U Lawless Miss Agrarian-U Dole Dole Lawiess Miss early speed) (be battling to wire) (in and over Fiag Drill (closes fast) Manna H. Fing Drill Agrarian-U (Money chance) (may surprise) (save money) (me guts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAUL REVERE HANDICAP | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

Cutting the Pipe. Nearly 48 hours after Kathy's fall, the lateral tunnel reached the well pipe. But rescue was hours away. Drill after drill broke. Doggedly, the workmen tried a pneumatic saw. Over the loudspeaker, the screech of their drilling sawed like a file on taut nerves. Finally at 6 o'clock Sunday night they asked that the microphones be turned off. There was a paralyzed wait that dragged on to two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Lost Child | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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