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...great was the wreckage and so widespread the crisis that what the U. S. had left in the way of wits, worldly goods and political institutions, looked impressive. No catalogue could communicate the wealth of U. S. natural resources, no two experts could wholly agree about the maze of surplus commodities, farm income, legislative measures, mortgages, Government loans, the export market, yield per acre, drought and erosion, that is known as the agricultural problem. But in simple, physical terms, the U. S. still had, after ten years of Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth, spinal curvature, sacroiliac trouble, bad tonsils and audible adenoids, you would undoubtedly find this afflicted race much more stupid at maze running than normal, healthy rats. You would conclude that rats with the best biological endowment are the most intelligent rats, and that your afflicted, stupid rat race was headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions through a maze of upward warrens. No sooner had the Americans seized one mouth of the tunnel than the Germans poured out of their surface positions and riddled them from the rear. The Americans finally cleared the area but not before the 107th Infantry had lost 337 men killed and 658 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense in Depth | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...CRIMSON is again cooperating with the University in an attempt to get Freshman registration started early in the morning by offering a year's free subscription to the first member of the class of 1943 who wends his way through the Memorial Hall maze this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST YARDLING TO REGISTER WILL BE FIRST WITH THE NEWS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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