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...European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits. As a moral force to counteract the Nazis' immoral force, it is a mere buzz. Another reason for the swift Nazi successes is made clearer: the Nazis found a moral vacuum, rushed in to fill it with a workable immorality. Europe could not save itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Germany | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes, has been the envy of all who have seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oarsmen Prove Selves One Of Greatest Harvard Crews | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

...attempt to counteract the antistrike agitation led by powerful employer groups which they believe is becoming more insistent, the Harvard Committee for Democratic Action recently issued a statement opposing all proposals, which are in any way designed to curtail the democratic right of American labor to strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-LABOR MOVE OF CAPITAL LASHED | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...parish calls. Headmasters hauled boys out of class, said the visit would do them more good than a lost half-hour of math. Faculty and students alike agreed that Mr. Price's was the best possible way to keep young people in touch with their parishes, to counteract adolescent apathy toward the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mr. Price Goes to School | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...aims is to "publicize and counteract the propaganda to supplant American democracy by a philosophy and form of government contradictory to our heritage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council of Democracy Will Meet Wednesday | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

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