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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose best-known precepts is: "One inch of time is equal to one inch of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Teaching of Tao Kung | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Jack Barnaby's advance information that the Williams tennis team would be "very nearly equal to ours in strength" proved overly optimistic on the basis of Saturday's match, as the Crimson went down to the season's fifth straight defeat, 6 to 3, salvaging only one singles match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Loses to Williams as Deerfield Topples '50 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Incidents such as these, while not so newsworthy as the blasts of the intolerant to "stop Wallace," are of at least equal significance to the interest of freedom of expression in the United States. Censorship of literary or artistic works, usually carried on by non-official groups, can all too easily pass from the field of the outright indecent and slip into material that is socially or politically repellent. In any case the censorship should not be effectuated by "elderly men morbidly interested in reading obscene books so that they can keep them away from others" or by groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allen's Alley and Blue Hens | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

Current treatment of those behind in their University obligations seems calculated to obtain the maximum bitterness. More consideration towards the student would show equal results with less resentment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Days to Pay | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...show great hope and confidence for the future. But the prestige of the U.S. has recently received a terrible blow there. To a bill granting $600,000,000 to the Philippines for rehabilitation work, somebody in Washington clumsily attached a rider stipulating that the United States is to have equal rights of 'exploitation' in the Philippines [TIME, March 24]. It will take a long, long time to repair the damage done by the word 'exploitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mission Completed | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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