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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which man has ever dreamed of; and more lately a fount of brotherhood and, among the nations, a preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from the dark and universal fear which rests in the slime on the blind sea-bottom of biology...
...face the fact that what the world must have is a fuller cultivation of those qualities which are best termed spiritual. Whatever we may think as to their origin, as scientists, we should no longer sneer at them; for on their strength depends our own survival. Man leads a double life, of mind and spirit. If mind is suspect, as in religious fanaticism, man may become a creature only of his instincts; if spirit is suspect, as today when scientific materialism carries such authority, he is in danger of degenerating into a selfish and soulless mechanism. To be a whole...
According to the estimates of the ablest American and Chinese military men, to drive out of Manchuria the 350,000 Communists will require the training and equipment in the American manner of ten new divisions. Furthermore, an efficient service of supply from the point of origin of the supplies to the front is essential. . . . American military men can and should run the service of supply in Manchuria...
...other up-to-date gadgets of sea-bottom exploration. Most promising work was done by dredges, which brought up samples of rock. The rocks have not yet been studied, but Columbia's Professor Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, hopes that they will tell much about the geological origin of the underwater range...
...Continents Strayed. But the expedition may throw light on a more important mystery: the origin of the continents. Some geologists believe that the continents are masses of granite floating in the heavier plastic basalt which underlies both the land and the ocean basins. Since they are floating, they may drift, like infinitely slow-moving icebergs. One theory holds that North and South America have drifted away from Europe and Africa, and that the curving crack between them has widened to form the Atlantic Ocean...