Word: globe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Uncle Charlie gets his copy he is more than ready for it. He reads four daily newspapers: The Portland Press-Herald, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, and the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald. He also reads other magazines. Having been around long enough to recall the news of Lincoln's assassination and to see Americans march off to four wars, Uncle Charlie has a longer view of the news than most people. He admits, for instance, that Russia is a threat to the U.S., but he wants to wait awhile before making any prognostications about it. "You can't hurry...
...subject of dick Powell's latest wharf-brawl. As usual, dapper Dick has little or nothing to work with, in this case just his native intelligence and a picture of the culprit facing the other way. For an hilarious moment, the patrons have visions of Powell prowling the globe in search of a man whose pate is familiar, when a clue turns up which sends him scurrying off to Indo-china...
...elect a Constituent Assembly. The Assembly's 120 members* in turn would write Israel's constitution and act as Israel's parliament. With the Arabs defeated, it remained to be seen how Israel's Jews, who have come together from all corners of the globe, would manage to live in one country...
Five students from New England colleges will receive $1,000 for a year of study and travel outside the United States, under the terms of the Boston Globe's third annual World War II Memorial Fellowships. Applications for these awards must be completed by Friday, January...
...newly arrived white sea monkeys conquered Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...