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...though Harvard had struck a man who was already down, when its axe fell upon the Government Department's assistant professors. For even before the latest blow, that Department was much undermanned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIVING THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient's-Eye-View | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Unlike Mr. Suma, Professor Zimmerman of the Sociology Department has no axe to grind in his article "A German Village of Today." Professor Zimmerman has been making a study of the ancient German hamlet of Klein Leugden, and he attempts here to reach a fair conclusion as to the effects of Nazi legislation on the lives of this small group of German villagers...

Author: By Rodman W. Paul, | Title: Guardian Features Article on Today's Germany; Defense of Japanese Policy | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

...felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana that fills the period, and with the war as a colorful, populous picture, aside from its deep political significance. He grinds not an axe, but a camera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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