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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dramatic than Senator Douglas, for it portrays the old Yankee doggedness that built New England. For ten generations the fishermen of Ogunquit and Perkins Cove (as the Josias River vicinity is known) had no harbor, and were forced to drag their boats over the rocks to safety during storms. Need for a sheltered basin grew as the fishing industry expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

What sort of a place would Harvard be it if went down this road? It would, I think not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and thereby our usefulness to the country. I think one need do no more than state the necessary implications of what you ask to demonstrate that nothing could be more alien to the principle of free expression that Harvard stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Statements | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Students who desperately need Commencement tickets should apply directly to Reginald Fitz '06, University Marshal, at 21 Grays Hall, Fitz announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stranded Seniors May Get Tickets | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Although still in the development stage and costly to operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Things to Come | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according as we [the party] need them." Only then can he become "immortal"-his identity lost in the deathless unity of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Rainbow Ends | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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