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...American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities, and then go on to infect the entire educational system. Thus do such efforts to eliminate totalitarianism breed of themselves the germ they seek to destroy, and although Professor Bridgman has repeatedly maintained that science must know no nationalism if it is to continue to contribute to universal civilization, his present action contradicts to an alarming extent these very words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTOLERANCE | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...blame; it's his heredity and environment. Agreed. Environments that breed crimes and criminals should be destroyed. As for heredity. . . . Perhaps the mothers should be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...America at Its Best" will be the title of a free, public, illustrated lecture tomorrow afternoon at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4 o'clock. The speaker will be John B. Breed '40, who has traveled extensively throughout America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breed To Talk | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Breed Cattleman Congdon slightly exaggerates the antiquity of his be loved breed. True, there have been black, hornless cattle in northeastern Scotland from time immemorial-but, says James R. Barclay, Secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, the beginning of the "breed improvement . . . which was to have its out come in the present-day Aberdeen-Angus breed of cattle . . . was about one hundred and thirty years ago, to be exact, in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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