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...that the U.S. Constitution has outlived practically every other written constitution of the past two centuries. But you would never know it to read the books written by the intellectuals of 1942 and 1943. Charles Beard (The Republic), Peter Drucker (The Future of Industrial Man), Hamilton Basso (Mainstream), Herbert Agar (A Time for Greatness), Henry Wallace (The Century of the Common Man), James Truslow Adams (The American), Walter Lippmann (whose The Good Society, originally published in 1937, has just been reissued with a new preface), and Isabel Paterson (The God of the Machine) have all taken part in what might...
...brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example, could undoubtedly make out a good case for an Anglo-American understanding in support of Beard's "continentalism...
...particular bacillus used in Dr. Francis' experiment was taken in 1923 from a sick California ground squirrel. It was used to inoculate 48 test tubes partly filled with beef infusion agar jelly. The tubes were tightly sealed to insure a moist atmosphere and stored at a temperature...
...race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew...
...your excellent review of Herbert Agar's book [TIME, Nov. 9] you say: A Time for Greatness suffers from the shortcomings of a sermon. Now just whataells wrong with a sermon...