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...share of searching for the never-never land where science and common sense meet. It will be a country where "the greatest scholar [will] confess himself the equal of the child." No mind will be so "debauched with learning" that it will shun the simple skepticism that blows the lid off everything...
...only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...heat was on in Cambridge and adjacent areas yesterday, as fear of Kafauver Committee repercussions forced local bookmakers to put a firm lid on their activities...
...boiling pot will blow its lid off if it is too tight," said a Spaniard explaining Barcelona's recent cost-of-living strike riots (TIME, March 19). Last week the lid was tightly clamped back on Barcelona...
While Mao Tse-tung's armies took a mauling in Korea, his commissars were having trouble with the home front. Helped by the diversion of Red troops and resources northward, anti-Communist guerrillas had rattled the lid off south China. Lately, in the curious way which Communist governments often take to advertise their difficulties, the Reds described the situation...