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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same breath admitted it was impossible to divide the country into satisfactory economic, political, racial units. His Majesty's Government there on abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should they fail to agree, the British Government hinted, a settlement might be imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Divide & Rule? | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Speleologist | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Theory of General Semantics is exceedingly complex (Korzybski calls it a "non-Aristotelian system"), but its method of instruction is simple. Chief instrument of training is the "structural differential." By handling this implement, students (who call it "the semantic rosary") learn graphically that there are different, "nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: General Semantics | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...were asked to name a Spanish dancer, he would probably call to mind the late sultry, supple-waisted La Argentina. To dance fans in Spain La Argentina was distinctly hot stuff, but the place of Spain's No. i dancer has long been held by a heftier, black-haired woman with a somewhat similar name: Argentinita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Argentinita | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

However, if a voluntary plan is submitted by defendants, which not only eliminates the practices complained of but goes farther and offers provisions in the public interest . . . it will be considered. . . ." In short, before the Department of Justice would call off its suit. Ford and Chrysler had to agree to stop doing something they had a legal right to do. Warned Thurman Arnold: "The decrees in the present cases may become most important precedents in preventing the misuse of advertising power in other fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Important Precedents | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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