Word: answered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot believe that human nature, even as concentrated in TIME'S editorial rooms, can attain the objectivity and detachment required to escape getting a distinct kick out of such cerebrations. An honest answer would be greatly appreciated...
Congratulations to TIME for this answer to a scholar's prayer...
...entity is this central European space capable of existence, and whoever breaks up that entity commits a crime against millions of people," declared Herr Hitler. If people did not like the way a "tolerable order of things was established in Central Europe," then Herr Hitler could only answer that it was not the "method but the useful result that counts"-i.e., that the end justifies the means. But "thanks to Mr. Stalin," Germany and Russia had now restored that entity. They were going to do more. Not only in Central Europe but to the "south and east" the Communazis intended...
University officials have at last deigned to answer the barrage of criticism aimed at them for their action in the case of the ten assistant professors, and they have given a complete explanation of their stand. Out of the complicated welter of figures and claims, only one fact remains as clear as it was before: that teaching and tutorial instruction in several departments have been seriously harmed. They have been harmed because the number of "middle-men"--who are the backbone of tutorial and teaching has been reduced by the firing of the assistant professors...
...magazines a fillip of "poetry" do so with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their lives...