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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dynamite at Harvard | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses they settle in the organs for a longer time. There, like radium or Xray, they destroy cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Experts | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...have exonerated me of lecherous attacks on me by scurrilous people who have no heart for the toilers. These attacks vere attempts to destroy our movement and turn it over to outside interests. . . . Christ said: 'Forgive them for they know not what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: So Does Mr. Moreschi | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Anybody who sits on Cape Gris Nez is seven minutes by air and an hour and a half by sea from England, and there are a lot of Germans still sitting around Cape Gris Nez. . . . We must keep enough here to make sure that the enemy cannot destroy or seriously damage what is, after all, the powerhouse of world resistance to the German bid for world domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Misery in the Powerhouse | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...only one millionth as dense as the earth's atmosphere at the surface, but 80 miles up it may be as dense as ours (because of the moon's lesser gravitational pull), and the earth's atmosphere 80 miles up is still dense enough to destroy most meteors in a flash long before they get near the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twinkle, Twinkle | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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