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NAVARRO'S IDEA UNIVERSE INSIDE EARTH [TIME, JULY 14] HARDLY NOVEL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, FOLLOWERS OF [KORESHANITY'S CYRUS TEED], BELIEVED THIS EVER SINCE 1870. KORESHAN COLONY AT ESTERO, FLORIDA, NOW A MERE PITIFUL REMNANT, HARDLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GALLANT EARLY EFFORTS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO COULD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

"American children chew too much gum when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Into a Confused World | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

The United States furnishes particularly good opportunities for the moaners and groaners. Its material wealth forms a perfect background against which to accentuate its inept statesmanship, its political stupidity, its immorality, social injustice and inequality, the break up of its families and churches, and the pitiful inadequacy of its educational...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excelsior! | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

If you'd like to see Greer Garson as a Western lass who makes good in Jim Fiskish New York and marries a dullish robber baron, you can go to "Mrs. Parkington," but you'll also have to see her finish up as a rather pitiful eighty-year-old matriarch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

"My American friends: You all know the terrible destruction the enemy caused in Europe . . . . Our educational and public health services were purposely wrecked and the most pitiful victims are our children. They are so pale. It will take a long time to restore normal mills and fat supplies, to re...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecturer on Physics Backs Masaryk's Plea For Relief to Czechs | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

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