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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the faint stirrings of peace at the grass roots. Did it mean that peace would flourish in Palestine? Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Piecemeal Peace | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...nettle shall flourish on the gravel court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...door that absolutely no-one else could be admitted because of the rigid fire laws; whereupon, before the door had closed each time, a few particular people were allowed to go in. This of course infuriated the rest of the crowd. It is unfortunate that such undemocratic favoritism should flourish in Harvard at a concert supposedly equally free to all Either everyone waiting should have been admitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

Doctors do not attribute penicillin's success to its effect on a cold virus. It probably affects only the bacteria that flourish in the tissues disorganized by the virus. Whatever it does, it seems to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Comfort | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...State of Israel-founded on ideals and aspirations as old as time-will flourish as a living symbol of humanitarian civilization at least until the end of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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