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Geologists shrugged at all the stir. Nature would wipe out the falls anyway in a scant 12,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Only a Brontide | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...upon them and no hysterical hopes; they had the peasant's love for the land, the schoolboy's patriotism, the self-righteousness of a very young nation. They were Sabras-nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus, grown on arid earth, tough, hard-living, scant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

This week, a scant majority of Congressmen remained in Washington. They were exhausted and waspish-from the heat and eight years of overwork.* When they or their successors return in January, they will get more pay for less work-but work of better quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Pay, Less Work | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...points and on the basis of this lead won term honors in inter-house athletics with a total score of 572 points, 112 points higher than Dunster House, in the runner-up position. In third place in the term standings was Winthrop House with 425 points, a scant 5 points more than Leverett in fourth place. Lowell was next with 327 points while Adams and Dudley brought up the rear with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Lead in Intramural Loop With 572 Points | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

...came war and another child, but little change. Innocenzo, who had scant appetite for heroics, wangled a job as a medical orderly and his wife got a Government allotment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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