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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow where the search for truth led them. "Neither from the side of reason nor from the side of thought oriented in a Christian sense are any barriers raised to research, to knowledge, to affirmation of truth," he said. "There are some barriers, but they do not serve to imprison truth. Their purpose is to prevent hypotheses that have not been proved from being taken for established facts, and to keep people from forgetting the necessity for checking one source against another ... It is to avoid these causes of error that there are barriers, but there are none for truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rights & Barriers | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Perhaps the students who want deferments should close their eyes and remember what Herbert George Wells once said. "The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind: no man of high intellectual qualities would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling." Name Withheld by Request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadet Letter | 4/16/1952 | See Source »

...Leniency," continued Peng, "is a mistake. We must enforce severe suppression. We must kill those who ought to be killed, imprison those who ought to be imprisoned, and control those who ought to be controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Uprisings Against the Reds | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...fine and imprison hoarders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Yoon Piung-hi's activities made it clear that it was only a matter of time before the Japanese would decide to imprison Rhee, perhaps to dispose of him permanently. In 1912, with the help of missionary friends, Rhee got permission to leave Korea for six months. He sailed for Hawaii, settled down as a leader of the territory's small Korean colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father of His Country? | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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