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Cherrington, who is a member of the national committee of UNESCO, pointed out that it would take this long to break down present nationalistic barriers. "We haven't yet developed a sense of belonging to the world community and it will take UNESCO a long time to impress this on its member nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'One World' Is Far in Future --Cherrington | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Gracious Gesture | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fanning the Fire | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...have created the outer atmospheres and inner climates through which her characters are supposed to have lived, The Nazarovs would be a novel of great tragic force. But the job calls for more than the style of a competent linguist and the memory of a good reporter. What will impress the reader is not so much the novel that is there as the suggestion of the novel that might have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inhumanity v. Human Beings | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...humorously written letter Mr. Leonard stated that it had been his endeavor to impress proctors at examinations to be unobtrusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

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