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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though he had come from another planet and carried a piece of its peculiar atmosphere with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Such missiles, Dr. Zwicky believes, may be projected to the moon and other planetary bodies, and the collisions will be visible through telescopes on the earth. Others will become artificial satellites of the earth, whirling forever around our planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets to the Moon | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...makes his living as an accountant) decided that the earth rotates faster than its oceans and atmosphere. Therefore, the inertia of water and air produce currents that appear to move in the opposite direction. Herz concluded that, since the important (in his opinion) air and ocean currents of the planet do, indeed, move uniformly eastward, the earth must be moving westward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oh, Mr. Copernicus! | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Undisturbed Pictures. Stieglitz' silver mane became the central planet of a worshipful cult. Lewis Mumford, Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Dorothy Norman and Gertrude Stein all sat at his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lens Master | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...strong a union, to the planet's ends, Your Empire is, our band of scattered friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Laurel Day | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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