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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat and rye are only superficially similar; they belong to different genera of the grass family. Non-Soviet geneticists believe (on the basis of thousands of experiments) that to make one turn into the other would be as difficult as making a cat give birth to puppies. But such Westerners are neglecting a new factor in genetics: the miracle-passing powers of Joseph Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Teacher of the Toilers | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Membership is not limited to candidates for the Dramatic Club, although most of the performers either belong or hope to belong to that body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater Body Organizes to Teach Acting | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores, that the 17 clubs now took in 87% of those who wished to belong, but it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come One, Come All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Along with most of his contemporaries, Stuempfig has tried his hand at abstract art, but only once. "I was told to paint an abstraction," says he, "and I did it, in school, where all abstractions belong. But at the Pennsylvania Academy where I studied I tried to resist the tendency of the average art student to like the obvious -the obvious being Picasso and Matisse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Romantic Mood | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Hilton will pay for his investment with two-thirds of his yearly profits. The rest of what he makes, an estimated $300,000 a year, will belong to Hilton tax free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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