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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These figures are subject to constant adjustment, however, since these men are gradually being absorbed as actual House members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Meal Crush Eased by Transfer of Non-Residents | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...lives. . . that we might learn from them courage in peace to spend our lives making a better world for others." And Bishop Lawrence who delivered the dedication address, explained finally the reason for the choice. "Because the sons of Harvard have faith, want more faith, and believe in the constant nurture of faith, they have given this chapel to the University...

Author: By Herbert P. Glesson, | Title: World War I Memorial Product of 15 Year Struggle | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...Louis Post-Dispatch admonishes cubs, with good reason, that probe is to be "generally reserved for surgeons," and is not a synonym for investigate. (But, like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also surprised at the "fanatic patriotism of Americans, the constant harping on the American heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Thirst | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

There is a constant illusion that you are watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of difficult and threatening country, that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves, but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The attempt is really the story, and the "background" is really the hero of the piece, and its villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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