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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have always believed, perhaps naively, that the purpose of a trial is to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused, not to add a legalizing rubber stamp of approval to whatever happens to be the prevailing public opinion on the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

...announced agenda the Committee has taken another step beyond the petty animosities of recent weeks, a step which should add not only fairness but efficiency in forming a new basis for the Council. Meetings of the Committee will revolve around drafts of the present constitution and the one drawn up during the summer, with the members hopeful of resolving all but major differences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where the Elite Have Met | 10/3/1946 | See Source »

Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the way in an "enormous development" of educational films aimed at new, cheaper projectors; 2) editing a 63-volume, "popular-priced" ($200-$250) set of "the great books of the western world," first one-package edition of the "100 Books," many of which are out of print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: NoTime for Infants | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

This is a skillfully written account of an Anglo-French field-hospital unit-but its chief value is what it has to add to public 1 nowledge about the aloof and baffling General Charles de Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bandages & Bitters | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

This year President Conant will add another assignment to his load. Out of the classroom since 1933, he has volunteered to guest-lecture in the new general education courses in natural science. His recipe for teaching science to nonscientists: a new type of course dealing with the "tactics and strategy" of science, putting a minimum emphasis on factual knowledge, a maximum on scientific method and historical approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chemist of Ideas | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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