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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Creeping Suspense | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Concern over the fate of Varsity morals at the hands of traditional Ivy League nonchalance has driven Gerald Spear '48, chief cheerleader, to the brink of hysteria and into the public prints in an appeal for rah-rah organizers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Megaphone Trumpets For Tyro Cheerleaders | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...most distinguished scientists turned their attention from the laboratory this months to the problem of international peace with regard to Europe. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, excoriated "the travesty and hypocrisy" of U.S. policy in Greece, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, termed Europe's economic fate inextricably bound up with American welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Blast as American Role in European Muddle | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...most distinguished scientists turned their attention from the laboratory this month to the problem of international peace with regard to Europe. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, excoriated "the travesty and hypocrisy" of U.S. policy in Greece, and Kirtley F, Mather, professor of Geology, termed Europe's economic fate inextricably bound up with American welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mather, Shapley Blast U.S. Role in Continental Affairs | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Most of the summer-becalmed press joined in the protest. As the unseemly spot persisted, Saskatchewan's Government announced that the internees' fate was and would be in federal hands. That put the next move up to the Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Unseemly Spot | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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