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...questioned. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though the men in the long beards and skullcaps argued in the streets for hours, there seemed no sure way of deciding whether it was a case of mistaken identity or of a murderer beyond the reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: A Man with a Narrow Face | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...believe, however, that his diagnosis of the "insidious forces" is mistaken, and that they will require a much firmer opposition than he advocates. Women in clubs are no distraction to study as one doesn't study there anyway. Women in classes are a slight distraction because there is so little opportunity for conversation. Fortunately Lamont and the dorms are not yet coed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For an All-Male Cambridge | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

Last week Yukio Ozaki was once more showing gratitude toward the U.S. Wispy but indomitable, he had flown the Pacific to thank Americans for their postwar aid. Brandishing a tulip-shaped ear trumpet, he told New York reporters, "If you think Japan is [now] becoming a democracy, you are mistaken. Japan is getting worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Distant Visions | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Professor Wiener, like Capek, has thought and written about the influence of the machine on society. In his prologue, Wiener pointed out that Capek was mistaken in postulating a society based on universal robots, that we were leaning more to specialized machines that faithfully perform specific tasks...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/10/1950 | See Source »

...liberated. But his Franciscan superiors gave him no encouragement. "The custom of voluntary substitution,""said one of them, "was never in our code." A Vatican aide brushed off Blandino as "an esaltato [fanatic] who defied discipline. To preserve the peace of Saint Francis it is best to ignore a mistaken effort to bring the peace of Saint Francis to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Esaltato | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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