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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question logically presents itself as to whether the students at Harvard share the same opinion" as Dartmouth's majority, said the Log August 24. "Taking into account the fabled difference between Dartmouth and Harvard men, the crushing majority would still seem to indicate a similar feeling by students in general. Can Harvard justify itself in the face of such adverse opinion of youth?--a part of which she is educating," the Log asks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH LOG POLLS BONER ON "GENERAL EDUCATION" DISCUSSION | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...State Department report was a compilation of some 240 separate protests made to the enemy while the war raged. Behind the stiff, formal language was apparent the rage which must have gripped Secretaries Hull and Stettinius every time a new atrocity account came in. The Department had refrained from public outburst as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATROCITIES: Before Hiroshima | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Japanese account, the two-handed swords of their fighting men are sharp enough to cut through cherry blossoms floating toward the earth. On less poetic occasions, they have been known to cut through three bodies in a single sweep. Last week the Japs set out in their own manner to make the world forget the practical uses of their snickersnee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cutlery, Please | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...first trustworthy account of the aftereffects of the atomic bomb came last week from a Dutch surgeon who was in a Nagasaki prison camp when the bomb fell. (Of 200 Allied prisoners, four were killed; four died later). The surgeon, Captain Jacob Vink, challenged one Jap claim: he doubts that anyone entering an atom-bombed city afterwards would suffer from radioactivity. But he verified the fact that many (though not all) of the bomb victims who seemed to be recovering collapsed and died several weeks later. Their symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Atomic Wounds | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...atom bomb ready, it commandeered Laurence to write the official releases which explained the bomb. He watched the famed July 16 experiment in the New Mexico desert. Then the Army packed him off to the Pacific, to fly over Nagasaki. Last week, at last, the Army released his account of the Nagasaki raid. Thirty days after it happened, it was still top page-one news in the New York Times, and in many another paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Now It Can Be Told | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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