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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question is 'no,' it is not necessary to fill up the rest of this form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: The War of the Worlds | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: How It Happened | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

According to the intrasubjectivists' manifesto, an intrasubjective painter is not inspired by anything visible, but "only by something he hasn't seen yet . . . He begins with nothingness. That is the only thing he copies. The rest he invents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Into the Void | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return to power at the next election, and then manhandle devaluation, the laborites will have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pounds and Politics | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

...Goldstein "just haven't come around." as Munro says. Bruce had been hoping this trio would be in better shape by now than it is. As a result, he plans to "squeak through" today with second-stringers in the lineup and at least save his starters for the rest of the season...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Soccer Team Opens Against Tufts | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

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