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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intentions of any great power, Germany, Britain or the U.S., Argentina was trying to be neutral in an almost totally unneutral world. Acting President Castillo said so again last week: "Argentina will continue to maintain neutrality in the European war." It was significant that the No. 1 Argentine should refer to the World War as European. Replied U.S. Ambassador Nor man Armour (in a speech to the Buenos Aires English Club) : "Between those who destroy the law and those who observe it there is no admissible neutrality." The decision was a desperately difficult one for Argentina to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hour of Decision | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...this is a conviction that the human mind, in order to reach Heaven, must achieve a state of absolute purity, and that one lifetime is not sufficient to attain this. Therefore it is being constantly reincarnation until it arrives at the pure state. Last year Ballard (whom his followers refer to as The Master), becoming absolutely pure, went bodily to Heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

...Curriculum and Tenure" would presumably refer to changing, initiating, or abolishing of courses and hiring and firing of teachers. The group, a subcommittee of the Council's Education Committee, will include non-Council members from all fields of concentration, mainly from the Junior class. Eugene D. Keith '42 was chosen chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curriculum, Tenure Committee Formed by Council | 3/25/1941 | See Source »

When an article in your magazine is good, it's the best there is for color, freshness, and punch. But when one stinks, there are no words to describe the odor. I refer to "Company D and The Old Man" in your Feb. 24 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Matter and energy are manifestations of the same thing: matter is energy "frozen" into electric particles. These whirl in energy systems called atoms, which in turn form larger energy systems called molecules. These form dynamic energy systems called cells, which we refer to as "alive." Thus the difference between "dead" atoms and "living" cells is not of ultimate nature but of complexity. Man is an aggregate of 1,000 billion cells, each of them an individual, self-centred organism, which work together by means of chemical signals and the nervous system. This final complexity, "living" man, evolved from nonlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man and His Mind | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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