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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political debate. If there is one thing all U.S. citizens could accept as the issue of this war, it is the notion that Law and not Force should regulate international relations. Even so, last week no U.S. citizen, even among Polish immigrants, would have advocated serious U.S. commitments to correct the Russo-Polish border this way or another. But many Americans felt that Stalin's P.S. to Teheran was quite a mortgage on the desired future of U.S.Russian friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: P. S. to Teheran | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the Class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site has not always been the convening place of sailors on leave and students on sprees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...know what he is saying . . . [but] knows it creates a stir. . . . If the adult is shocked and sharply forbids . . . the child will use the phrase over and over . . . the teacher [should] let the obnoxious expression go the first few times. . . . Often . . . it will wear itself out. . . . If you correct a child and he answers, 'My father says that' . . . you must . . . [avoid] discrediting his home. . . . It must be pointed out. . . that, although those words may be used at home, [they] cannot be . . . at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Grandma Knew | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...facts: airline operators are 1) correct in assuming that there is some Army waste; 2) wrong in thinking the case of the underworked Lodestar typical. When the commercial planes were taken over, the Army found that countrywide facilities for servicing the Lodestars were sparse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Planes to Spare? | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Bang! Bang! Bang! I assume, then, that you regard yourself as omniscient. If I am wrong, correct me! Laissez faire and let laissez faire is what I believe in. I thought you'd enjoy Miss Perrish, darling. She has a constant ringing in HER ears too. One of us ought to be a Boswell, taking all this down. Miss Gorce is in the embalming game. Darling, I seem to have this rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Men, Women and Thurber | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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