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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's capital of learning and culture. Its small luxury shops are almost as bright, smart and busy as when Kyoto was called Japan's Paris. Its many huge temples make Kyoto, like Rome, a city of bells. As Japan's holy city, and a second-rate target to boot, Kyoto escaped bombing. Last week, amid spring's pink and white cherry blossoms, Kyoto seemed full of changeless charm. But beneath the surface stirred the changes of postwar U.S. occupation and tutelage. Surveying the scene, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found the ferment "still far from democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report Card from Kyoto | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates (31.3 v. 24.4 per 1,000 in the U.S.), Puerto Rico's people are increasing at the rate of 69,000 a year. The population has more than doubled in the half-century of U.S. rule; it could double again in a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Bobby Thompson will probably fill out the trio today, playing right field as usual, but Ralph Robinson's showing in yesterday's squad scrimmage with Rindge Tech may rate him a starting roie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cook Pitches for '52 Nine Against Went worth Today | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...send toward this effort is not in proportion to the wealth of pleasure I derived from Professor Spencer's course. I feel certain that other students who took the course will agree that such a memorial provides for us the best opportunity of expressing out deep appreciation of the rate gifts Professor Spencer gave us. Henry S. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spencer Memorial Fund | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...knows what platform Bray, Philip James, is running on? What tuition rate will McLoughlin, William G., Jr., fight for? What is the stand Shackford, Charles R., take son final examination for graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Elections | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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