Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, artificial insemination has been seriously suggested as a means of produring a new super race here in America. H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize winner, and President of the American Genetic Society, in his book called "Out of the Night," recommended that the sperm of a group of selected men be injected into American women, producing a conglomerate mass of "perfectly human specimens...
...professor of History and Greek, succeeds George H. Chase '96 and Alfred M. Tozzer '00 in his new post. A former president of the Archeological Institute of America and founder of the magazine "Archeology" he has been associated with the University since...
...trials and tribulations of Editor Guy Shipler, The Churchman, and especially the criticism of Unitarian Leon Birkhead [TIME, Feb. 28] points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding fathers endeavored...
...prior history. Before the war a modest number of copies of our U.S. editions went by surface mail to various European heads of state, their ministers, U.S. embassies, and private citizens abroad who wanted the American viewpoint on the news of the world and news of America. When war closed most of the Continent to us, we continued to supply available subscribers by ship as best we could through the German blockade, and managed to fly a light-weight edition from New York to people like Winston Churchill and his Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, who wanted TIME each week...
They saved their strength by yielding the floor to a pair of helpful Republicans who wanted to sound off on pressing irrelevancies. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges wanted to deplore the wastefulness of such Government publications as Eliminating Bats from Buildings, Fleas of North America, etc. Senator Bridges talked almost three hours...