Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year Japan's advances were incredibly swift, at least by the standards of all previous wars. At something like forced-march rate, columns fanned out from Peking and Tientsin to west and south. Shanghai was taken after stubborn resistance (TIME, Aug. 30, 1937). The Chinese Armies fought rear-guard actions up to Nanking, where a ferociously maddened Japanese Army committed one of history's most terrible acts (TIME, Dec.27, 1937). Murder, rape, destruction, looting-a crazy vindictiveness on the part of the Japanese-resulted in some 50,000 civilian deaths...
Once he was nominated, business as a whole began lining up behind him with the same enthusiasm. The New York Stock Exchange, with utility stocks opening up three points, traded 660,000 shares in its first hour (previous day's total: 441,000). The New York Journal of Commerce exulted, "To the business community, the nomination of Mr. Willkie spells a new era," and predicted a more confident policy among purchasing agents. More significant was the way individual businessmen took fire. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Edgar Monsanto Queeny asked his board of directors for a leave of absence...
...Having examined Hitler's Reichstag speech of the previous day (in which the Führer demanded colonies), Chamberlain says he "very definitely got the impression ... it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis...
...make its debut in Washington before embarking for South America in mid-July, Stokowski exclaimed: "I expected to find great talent, but I have found more and a higher type of talent than even I believed existed. . . . These musicians are of a musical quality that has not existed in previous generations in our country. A great flowering of Art is just beginning in America, and it is expressing itself first through Music...
...printed with the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 60; Time Reader scores have averaged...