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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision...
...approach of the Chinese Communists across the border has given the Reds visions of decisive victory, but it has also aggravated a growing rift between the hard Communist core of leaders around Ho, who are ready to accept Mao Tse-tung's leadership, and the rank & file, who fear China and want Viet Nam for the Viet Namese. One French general told me: "For two years I had to keep statistics of desertions to the Communists. For the last two months my statistics are Communist desertions...
...expert in modern European history, Brinton joined the Harvard faculty in 1923. Five years later he received an assistant professorship. In 1935 he became an associate professor and in 1942 was elevated to the rank of full professor...
Blue Lagoon (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British import which might better have been dropped in the South Pacific, where much of it was filmed. Purporting to be a South Sea-romance, it is actually about as long-winded and emotionally fogbound as a Norse saga...
...leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...