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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famine and madness called Communism ... I avow that unless the whole American people, without further ostrichlike actions and pretenses, unite to stop the Communist floodings of our own land, our sons, for the third and last time, shall be summoned ... to bear arms against those who would desecrate and destroy them. Yea, it is full time that a strong and vigilant America unite in prayer and protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REBELLION TO TYRANTS . . . | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Since it has not been our practice to keep club lists in the past," Dean Sherman said yesterday, "agreeing to destroy them represents no radical change from our previous policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Accepts Council's Plan Requiring A.Y.D. Lists | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

Harvard, which comes rather late than early to this problem, has benefitted by the mistakes of its colleagues: the Wright proposals, by allowing the widest latitude of time as well as choice, avoid the real danger evident in other colleges, which destroy all choice by stacking the required courses in the first two years and saving concentration for later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Fight | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...dentist (one of those who advertised), "Doc" Strub works on the theory that nothing should be painful for his patrons. There is not one "Keep Off the Grass" sign at Santa Anita. Says Doc, who fancies himself as public benefactor and administrator: "Our customers appreciate beauty enough not to destroy it. They have pride in their park." For those who like to sunbathe, Doc provides benches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doc's Gold Mine | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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