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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the naked moon, Mars has an atmosphere. It is very thin (probably equivalent to the earth's atmosphere 50,000 ft. above sea level), but sometimes small white clouds can be seen floating in it. Yellow dust storms rage across the Martian plains. The Martian poles show white spots, suggesting icecaps, that creep in winter down to latitude 50 degrees (equivalent to the latitude of Winnipeg), and disappear in the Martian summer. When the "icecaps" retreat, they leave greenish areas that resemble vegetation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...most fun the Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Determined Drifter | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...West about twenty years ago, Chuck Arnold and his Sophisticates were the rage of the countryside. All the little flappers sought a knowing look from the smiling maestro, but Jeanne Crain kissed him and this made more of an impression. In less time than it takes to sing "I'll See You in My Dreams" they were married, thus ending the plot, part I. Plot, part II, almost brings the band to New York and the big time, but just at the opportune moment November 1929 comes along and brings a depression. Plot, part III, finally gets the band into...

Author: By L. Od, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...hatred of our foe grow cold even if he has been hanged. Let it continue to rage with a tenfold fury . . . towards those who have not yet satisfied their lust for profits derived from the blood of millions and who, in their satanic and blind folly, are preparing a new war for suffering humanity. . . . The time will surely come for their inevitable death by hanging. . . . Let our indestructible hatred of them continue. It will come in handy at the right moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beside the Quiet Don | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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