Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hesitate calling the electron microscope as it is a magnificent instrument. In view of future developments, however, it has to be admitted at the same time, that with respect to its lenses in their present state, no more favorable comparison can be made than with the microscope as it was at the time of Leeuwenhoek...
...last issue of TIME, you ran an article about the Merchant Marine calling us suckers and slackers. Also stating that we were expected to boo the message from the President of the United States. I wish to inform you that we are not slackers and suckers and also we respect our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. We Merchant Mariners, 10,000 strong, are trying to build up the reputation of the backbone of the American victory fleet...
...Vichy, not that we used those relations to do espionage and to conspire, and not that we dealt with Admiral Darlan. ... It is the way so many, and some in high places, are talking about these things that does such grave injury to our course, and to our self-respect, and to our confidence in the future...
Chang was trained to be a soldier. For years he fought under his kinsman, the overlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thereafter, in China's convulsive era of war lords, Chang Ching-hui traded his allegiance for whatever bowl of pottage smelled best at the time. In this respect he was only following the rule of most of the high-domed, mustachioed war lords...
Death came in Manhattan last fortnight to Columbia's Professor Franz Boas, who more than 30 years ago scientifically demolished "this Nordic nonsense" in The Mind of Primitive Man, a book which has since been called the Magna Charta of self-respect for the so-called lower races...