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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since Daimler invented the internal combustion engine and adapted it to personalized transportation back in 1887, there has been no essential change in automobile design. People still use twice as much space on the road as the car requires, because today's operator cannot see how much room he needs . . . [He] skids off the road in his front-end-heavy blunderbus and involuntarily kills and maims more than a million people inside or outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Twice Acheson repeated his theme: "The interest of the U.S. and of all the hundreds of millions of people throughout the world in peace is so fundamental that the matter of peace cannot be tampered with and cannot be used as an instrument in any international political maneuver. It will not be so used by the U.S." He added pointedly: "If I on my part were seeking to give assurance of seriousness of purpose, I would choose some other channel than the channel of a press interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Diplomacy by Handout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Secretary Tobin ventured: "Congress cannot circumscribe the constitutional powers of the President. Does that answer your question?" Said Morse: "I don't think it even comes near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Knees High, Elbows Out | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...injecting some group spirit into the chaotic Yard. That's what the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs maintains, at any rate, and this body has presented considerable evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties" and, it says, because "the class is not ready to take part in such an activity any sooner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Smoker | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

...officers will provide Captain Bob Claflin at all with their most formidable opposition of the campaign. With victories over every foe on their schedule except Lehigh (eastern intercollegiate champions), Army is experienced, well-coached, and like all West Point teams, in perfect physical condition. Army's esprit de corps cannot be overlooked either...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Swimmers, Wrestling Team Face Service Academies Here | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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