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Word: humanities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invisible judges, not because he was the least bit dissatisfied with the Russian system but because he was curious, because he had quarreled with his wife, because "I was not lucky in the army." Criticism of the Soviet regime attributed to him really came from "this travesty of a human being," Pirogov. Wrote Barsov: "Traitors to their country . . . should be subjected to a strict isolation and even destruction ... I am in the category of those people, and I have to be destroyed if I shall not be corrected by the corrective labor camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Flight from Freedom | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Man & Dog | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Screen Directors Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Mickey Rooney in William Saroyan's The Human Comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Program Preview, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Jungle Is Neutral is packed to the boards with incredible adventure and impressive evidence of human fortitude, but it is written without a note of excitement, understated to the point of monotone. For that reason, and by the simplicity of its statement, it makes most first-person war books seem almost shrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Hell | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon had him chinning himself on his own self-confidence. He would get a job as a teacher and he and Ellen would enter middle age with their human dignity and refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle which could teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Old John | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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