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...Eastern Europe anyway, he might just as well let the Hungarians take Carpatho-Ukraine for him. It was noteworthy that the Hungarian Parliament quickly passed stringent anti-Semitic bills. Chances were that Ferenc Szalasi, imprisoned Nazi leader, would soon be released. Uneasy over the future, Hungary was careful to conform to Nazi "ideals" last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Tidbit | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...notes conform rather strictly to type. Each starts with an explanation of the game, although one, signed "Box 1300 (lucky, I hope!)" maintained that the writer was a Sophomore., just doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gals From South Bombard Harvard With Fan Letters | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice Holmes, the phrase "Holmes and Brandeis dissenting" has become famous in the annals of Court history. Now that the opinions of the high tribunal have in recent years come more closely to conform with his own, it is certain that there will be others to carry on the liberal tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADER | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether the less handsomely endowed criminal takes to anti-social behavior as a compensation for his physical shortcomings, Dr. Hooton does not venture a guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After Lombroso | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...request of the local police is indicative of a changed relationship between Harvard and the Cambridge municipal authorities. This conciliatory move by the University was the result of a sincere desire on the part of the Cambridge Police Department to cooperate with University Hall in assisting the students to conform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCILIATION CUM CAMBRIDGE | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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