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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can quite explain this situation. Some course officials cite a "college ruling" that says departments should keep bluebooks. There is no such regulation. This refusal to let students get exams back has become law only by force of tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams Also Teach | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

...stating the universal truism that "a full understanding of the totality of historical existence was lacking in these technicians of war," Meineeke does not discuss the more important factor that in Germany these militarists were given political responsibility. Nor does he, in calling Prussian militarism most blameworthy, explain why Nazism was most popular in southwest Germany...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

Like all researchers before him, Dr. Boyce is at a loss to explain why man is born with an appendix. It serves no known purpose. But he has gathered a lot of odd facts about the useless, troublesome appendage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Worm-Shaped Trouble | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

More in sorrow than in anger, steelmen stomped into the Senate caucus room last week. They were not there, as one of them said, to defend the latest boost in the price of steel (TIME, Dec. 26); they didn't think they had to. But they wanted to explain it to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push-Button Profits? | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...stating the universal truism that "a full understanding of the totality of historical existence was lacking in these technicians of war." Meineeke does not discuss the more important factor that in Germany these militarists were given political responsibility. Nor does he, in called Prussian militarism most blameworthy, explain why Nazism was most popular in southwest Germany...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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