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Word: furthering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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The invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLARATION OF PEACE | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

Further details about the Freshman dance were also issued by the Union Committee, which announced that Don Gohan and his orchestra will furnish the music for the cavorting '44s at the dance on December 14. The dance is to be informal, and tickets will cost $1.25 a couple and $.75...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Events Scheduled For '44s in December | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

What Chile did accomplish was to complicate further the overlapping claims already crowding each other around the frosty pie. Chile's segment includes part of the U. S.-explored lands on the west, overflows the Argentine-British claims on the east. Since 1908 this has been the most contested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Frozen Pie | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

But Argentina never recognized Britain's rights to the Falklands, still insists they belong to Argentina and that the Falklands' slice of the Antarctic is also Argentine. As further evidence of ownership Argentina has maintained a meteorological observatory in the South Orkneys for 36 years, is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Frozen Pie | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Eight Directions, One Sky | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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