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...distance from Moscow to London in three and a half hours," and coupled this statement with pointed reminders of the existence of hydrogen bombs and intercontinental guided missiles. Just about then, everyone remembered that it really was still April-which Poet T. S. Eliot long ago called the "cruellest month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: It Might As Well Be June | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Government Department that got the cruellest blow when the axe fell on ten assistant professors last June. For a long time it limped along painfully, its staff pared to the bone, trying to handle one of the biggest enrollments in the College. Lately it has been getting back on its feet, but Professor Holcombe, head of the Department, still has his heart set on another permanent appointee, and he deserves one. Accordingly, he has picked up his wheel of fortune; around and around she goes, and where she will stop, nobody knows. But the needle is quivering in the direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BLOOD TEST | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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