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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to training men for advanced research, the institute has two other main objectives. It provides a constant stream of qualified instructors in the far eastern languages and culture by a program of instruction for prospective teachers and educators, and the institute assists the Chinese in their own efforts for continued study by giving yearly grants to institutions in China for teaching, research, and publication expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Institute in Boylston Hall Is Mecca for Students of Orient | 9/15/1944 | See Source »

...sure," said Dr. Finor, "that Britain's problem will be greatly affected by the constant possibility of robot bomb attack, and it is going to mean more severity on Germany than we may have imagined. The Allies must do two things. First, the German militarist class with its agricultural domains must be completely depressed and big German industry completely depressed and big German industry completely controlled, so that proportionate encouragement will be given to the liberal and socialist elements within Germany itself that must bring about democracy. Second, we must firmly cement our British-Russian-American alliance so that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finer Advocates Thorough Demilitarizing in Germany | 8/29/1944 | See Source »

...subject is Harold, 21, serving a long term for a serious, unnamed crime. Harold, the son of a bull-tempered Polish laborer who speaks no English, has been in trouble with the police, mostly for pilfering, since the age of twelve. His most conspicuous psychopathic symptom was a constant blinking of his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnoanalysis | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Getting a look at Britain today is not an easy thing," he continued. "Transportation is a genuine problem. There is no such thing as a reservation. The railroads are in constant use moving troops, and evacuating increasingly large numbers of women and children to rural regions where they will be safe from the buzz bombs.' It is a customary thing nowadays to stand on trains for even the longest distance trips, and in many cases on cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McIlwain Depicts Wartime England | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

...still over him was the constant menace of more terror, and perhaps worse.* He wished he could speed the clock's hand through the war's eleventh hour, but he knew the robombs had slowed his own hands somewhat. He could still take it, and did, but he was certain he had had about enough. He was thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: Obsessive Menace | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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