Word: published
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has done plenty of damage since Pearl Harbor. Because of such hit-&-run battles as the Battle of Macassar Strait, only the Japanese know how badly they have been hurt. But the U.S. Navy, with a fair idea of what it had done, knew enough last week to publish a summary of Japanese ships that it was positive it had sunk or knocked...
...background. The great majority of honest observers regard the Mirror's attacks as sensational and irresponsible journalism. So the case of the Mirror raises the issue of freedom of the press in its most poignant form: men are called upon to defend the right of a paper to publish opinions which may be, and probably are, grossly unfair...
Equally as satisfying is it to evoke a spark of awakened interest by playing a good jazz record for someone with a well-developed Philistine scorn who wonders how the Harvard Crimson can publish ten or twelve inches on "Swing" every week. Only last week I detected signs of just such a conversion after playing some records of instrumental blues for someone who had not suspected that that word "Jazz" could embrace music of such a high quality...
...world has indeed moved, for the Vatican is honoring the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo, whom the Holy Office condemned to imprisonment for his "scientifically false" and "antiScriptural" discoveries. Soon the Vatican will publish "an exhaustive study ... to place in its true light the aid and favor Galileo enjoyed at the hands of the Church." The Very Rev. Agostino Gemelli, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, who made the announcement, added that "Galileo as a scientist and author of new astronomical discoveries was never persecuted by the Church, but was greatly helped...
...Secrets Bill, which would make all existing censorship seem downright lax, would make it a criminal offense to "communicate, divulge or publish to any person, in whole or in part, copies or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book, pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map, picture, plan, record or other writing" declared secret or confidential by any department of the Government. It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote...