Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first anthropological museums in America. Since its founding the Museum has sent out or participated in nearly 500 expeditions and field researches in every part of the world. Its best known collections present the artistic and industrial achievements of the Americas but the primitive people of Asia, the Pacific islands and of Africa are comprehensively represented...
Without detracting one whit from the courage and heroism of the American correspondents in Europe today, I would like to point out that Hitler's war is not a personal war against the U. S. newspaper men in Europe. In Asia, however, the frustrated Japanese war lords blame the American correspondents in Shanghai and elsewhere for their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White...
...species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense"; of "China Incidents," and of "New Orders in Greater Asia,"-the instinct of the day (for the young, defenseless and unprepared) is self-preservation; and the order of the hour is "to the protecting wings of a mighty defender!" For Australia, Canada or South Africa, this protecting wings are Great Britain's. For Indo-China, it would have been...
...hoarse, urgent voice of the "crusade to save our democracy" is finally stilled, by the vote of the people. But other voices, just as urgent, just as frenzied, are still coming in from Britain and a few scattered precincts in Europe, Asia, and Africa. They, too, cry for a crusade to save democracy, and they cannot be hushed by voting, or by turning off the radio. They will keep coming in, these voices of war, keep hammering at the will of a nation that does not want war, that is determined to prevent the spread...
...Mind? Participants to date have advocated everything from a Theatre Patrons' Protective League to end double features to a League for the Abolition of Amateur Ketchup Throwing. Not long ago it was suggested that fencing foils be used to settle family disputes, that the gap between Alaska and Asia be plugged so that the Japanese Current would not be chilled by meeting up with the Arctic Current. Another thinker revealed that he was working on an airplane that could make 800 miles an hour. Another mind had invented an inverted periscope for seeing fish under water. After the inventor...