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...plain truth is that Yugoslavia is a vicious, degrading Communist state. It has a new aristocracy-the party leaders with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...honestly faced the possibility that capitalism with all its fond folk lore was a thing of the past. When he found himself in opposition he expressed it as an individual, and he never took personal refuge in a theoretical labyrinth. Harvard and the world is a poorer place for his passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Schumpeter | 1/10/1950 | See Source »

...difference between a Brooks House Christmas party and the ordinary social work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Unveils Plans for Annual Christmas Party | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will beat the poorer...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Action on the plan began immediately with government officials drawing up necessary legislation, and the United Nations making provision to include American aid in its own plans for poorer nations. Several bills have been passed this session for increased appropriations to the U.N. for use in its economic assistance programs, but it was not until September that the main legislation went to Congress...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

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