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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West claimed a sizable victory when the major apparently heaved Marxian determinism overboard. "Every historical event," the powers agreed, "is a result of the interaction and interdependence of ... economic factors, political factors, cultural and social factors." Just how complete the victory would be, Berlin school children would learn next fall when their history books arrive. Each power will write texts for its own sector, then get the approval of the other powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making History | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Friends like Douglas Steere, Howard Brinton and Gilbert Kilpack. These groups, composed of Quakers' and non-Quakers, come together in spring and fall to withdraw from the world into the silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pendle Hill | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Last week he loaded crushed Dry Ice into an airplane and sowed 75 pounds of it from 12,000 ft. on a cloud near the fire. A few minutes later he saw rain falling from the cloud's base. A fairly heavy fall over the fire area lasted for 25 minutes, was followed by a two-hour drizzle. The Dry Ice shower, the Ontario Forest Protection Division reported, "had a dampening effect, but not an extinguishing effect upon the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire Icing | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Moths. Manhattan's Witty Bros., manufacturer and retailer of men's suits and coats, will mothproof its fall line with the "Boconize" process developed by Manhattan's Bocon Chemical Corp. Bocon says that its mothproofing will last through as many as 25 dry cleanings and five washings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Charles Jackson has written six novels; only three (including The Lost Weekend and The Fall of Valor) have been published. His latest should have stayed in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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