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...possible that our press gives too much space to our defects and sometimes even (involuntarily) plays them up. Possible and even probable. And this of course is bad. You insist, therefore, that we should balance (I would have said overlap) our shortcomings with our achievements. We shall without further delay fix that up. Have no doubts about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Stalin on Stalin | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...brave new field of Social Relations is a pretty complex one. Harvard set up its department three years ago, when anthropology, sociology, and psychology began to overlap at their edges. Similar departments are now turning up all over the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel Ties In | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard and Radcliffe communities began more and more to overlap extracurricular activities were forced to take cognizance of the courtship. Two years ago the CRIMSON appointed its first Radcliffe Correspondent, Joan McPartlin '49, shown at left with Crime president John G. Simon...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: 'Cliffe-Harvard Going Steady After 70 Years | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Thus, says Eliot, is the grand total of the word culture smashed into bits and pieces of semitruths. To reassemble it and grasp its full significance, he insists, the western world must first realize that all aspects of culture are not only related to each other but must overlap and interlock in such a way that they form a living whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Waste Land | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Again Plomb of Los Angeles did not comply: its President Morris Pendleton argued that the two businesses did not really overlap very much at all, and went blithely on, doing business as usual. Last week the court cracked down hard. It ordered Plomb of Los Angeles to: 1) fulfill last year's order at once, and 2) pay Plumb of Philadelphia all the profits it had made since March 1948 on sales of tools marked "Plomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Plumb v. Plomb | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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