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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granville Hicks '23, who as the first avowed Communist on the Harvard Faculty was the center of a stormy controversy, has resigned from the Communist Party, it was learned last night by the CRIMSON from a high party official...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Leaves Communist Party; Resigns Post on "New Masses" | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...until blood ran). Says Dr. Butler: "The present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigy | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...certain closely related organic compounds will react with one another (i.e., form new compounds) when nudged by simple catalysts (chemical activators) at ordinary temperatures. Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures. These strongarm methods, even when successful, are wasteful. In the Calingaert process the new molecules slide together without fuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Canaries & Ferryboats | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...early spring in the mountains, and high, snow-cowled hotels are full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures in Nazilcmd | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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