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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early reactions to America varied from pleasure at the well-ordered traffic to amazement on the ease with which women in this country combine a family with a career. There were mixed opinions among the visitors on the laxity in child training here...
...Among those here backing the devaluation is one of Harvard's newest economists. Arthur Smithies, professor of Economic since February when he came here direct from full-time work with the ECA. Smithies was director of the Fiscal and Trade Policy Division, and he still holds official ECA title as a consultant...
...Rosh Hashana seemed little more than a two-day vacation. But in some Orthodox homes men received fish heads to symbolize their position as heads of families and honey was spread on bread to symbolize the coming of a sweet and fruitful year. Only in Jerusalem was there mourning-among the pious who could not hold their traditional services at the ancient Wailing Wall in the Arab-held Old City...
...compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
...they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land study. A sociological project in Germany, the performance of American music in many countries, and the production of American drams translated by the students themselves are but a few of the common...