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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be dialectical murder . . . Any scientist who has such poor power of discrimination as to choose to support Lysenko's . . . genetics against all the weight of evidence against it is not much of a scientist, or, a priori, has lost the freedom that an instructor or investigator should possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freedom & Lines | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...What you have inherited from your fathers, You must earn in order to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Aside from Misses Walker and Essen, the cast includes Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce, Hank Ladd, and Johnny Coy, all of whom possess a variety of entertaining talents. "Along Fifth Avenue" is just one more of those uneven affairs; Nancy Walker is responsible for what smooth, bright spots there are, but the rest of its is not unpleasant...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless, things are tough. The Bruins have already proved that they possess an exasperatingly good goalie in Don Whiston--he made 48 saves in last week's game--as well as one of the trickiest first lines this side of Dartmouth. Tony Malo and Johnny Casey have picked up considerably more than the fundamentals of the game back home in Canada, while their linemate Bobby Davidson is no slouch...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Hockey Team Faces Brown Away Tonight | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Rotary Fellowships are awarded to students who possess a good speaking knowledge of the language of the country in which they elect to study, a faculty for making friends, a "basic internationalmindedness, and an instinct for leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Sponsors Two Britons for Graduate Schools | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

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