Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America is in a more exposed position in the Far East today than in Europe, and we must not let the war in Europe cause us to forget the crisis the United States faces in the Eastern Hemisphere," John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, said yesterday...
...only console is that the American public is fickle. It soon forgets bad news the same as it forgets good news. We know that a lot of things will happen throughout the world tonight that will cause us to forget the things that were reported yesterday. But, please TIME, pretty please, give Cicero its rightful break...
...make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose in Commons to quash their proposals: "We only court disaster if we forget that no paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples that alone can give it vigor and life; and international, like our own national, institutions must be very securely and deeply anchored on reality." It is startlingly evident that Lord Halifax feels...
Ever since the present war started, enlightened statesmen of the little States of southeastern Europe have believed that the Danubian countries must either hang together or be hanged separately. They urged the formation of a bloc of Danubian neutrals who would temporarily forget their sectional differences. Fortnight ago even Hungary, most intransigent of revision-seeking powers, was believed ready to join up. Then last week something happened: the big powers yanked their strongest strings, and Danubian federation was once more pulled asunder. The biggest string stretched was Count...
There are still some 138,500 one-room rural schools in the U. S., but full-dress modern education tends to forget about them. TIME herewith reports a normal day in such a school...