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...world rife with war and hate, in a nation rife with racial prejudice and discrimination, your story [TIME, Nov. 20] of interracial medicine at Harlem's Sydenham Hospital comes as the most encouraging evidence of social progress of which I have heard for a long time. Thanks for telling us about it. Perhaps social progress is not a myth, as I had begun to fear...
Harvard's Psychologist Gordon Allport, in a quiet, unpublished study of Cambridge "morale," had found the town, which is 77% Irish Catholic, rife with Coughlinism, antiSemitism, Anglophobia...
...fact," Scott writes, "the biggest problem' is to find out whom you can believe. Many people here have intimate and reliable contacts inside the German blockade and can provide direct, fresh information. But Stockholm is also rife with rumors and rumormongers who come to me with fantastic stories of intrigues and escapes-advice, warnings and obscure mutterings of all kinds...
...many places bootlegging was rife, doctors' prescriptions for medicinal alcohol up sharply...
...been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given for us on Saturday from...