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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slip out of modern American education's mainstream. Although the College operates for the most part within a framework of custom loving conservatism and the graduate school has not yet assumed significant size, "Princeton" the community is alive with intellectual adventure. There the Institute for Advanced Studies conducts its profound theoretical explorations; across town at headquarters of the Gallup Poll experts from the University's Office of Public Opinion Research provide technical assistance in the delicate process of national pulse-taking...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Advanced Studies Institute, Opinion Polling Breathe Life into Princeton | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...High taxes on earned incomes have the reverse effect ... on the fluidity of our society. Therefore, insofar as the national expenditures permit, the case for keeping income taxes low is overwhelming, both in terms of social ideals and incentives." The present system of taxation, Conant warned, "is having a profound effect on the incentives which thus far in our history have contributed to the taking of risks and the seizing of opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Family Split | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Ordinarily, say the Montreal psychiatrists, there is nothing much wrong with the aging male that hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Middle-Aged Male | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Personally, my sympathy lies with the men on the Hill. The problems they face are profound and unprecedented. I don't know the solution to many of them. Does Mr. Capp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the resulting explosion touched off not only the most efficient mass slaughter in written history, but a profound if remote jolt to the student of social science. No one needed further proof that the technical genius of man had far outrun the knowledge of his own perversity. The science of the twentieth century laboratory had left the science of the social thinker in the stone age. The committee membership cannot help but recognize this fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Sister Science | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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