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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A similar situation mesmerized voters during the race for nine seats on Cambridge's City Council. Unable to unseat the proponents of municipal government by an appointed city manager on the basis of their record, a few frustrated politicians assailed the C.C.A. candidates as upper class political dictators. The fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In a Guinea Pig's Eye | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

In a letter to Chatham County Commissioner Judge James T. Houlihan, Miami Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Yankee Meddling? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Princeton University is about to begin a $200,000 "experiment in self-appraisal." Endowed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Nassin has set up a five year long study project which will attempt to evaluate education at Princeton today in terms of the institution's avowed purposes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton to Re-evaluate Its Educational Methods | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

In Ottawa, strawberry plants bloomed and lilac bushes burst their buds. In Winnipeg, it was pussy willows. As Torontonians curiously watched their city experiment with a new machine that sucks fallen leaves from gutters like a vacuum cleaner, newspapers reported that Oct. 20 was the hottest in history. The high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Indian Summer | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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