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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DEFEND THEIR PALESTINE HOMES AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ASSAULTS OF ZIONISM, AN UNPROVOKED CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED AGAINST THEM, WIELDING THE DEADLIEST OF WEAPONS RIDICULE. IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 21, APROPOS OF NOTHING, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE WEAPONS OF ZIONISM, YOU HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC AND THE GULLIBLE TO RAISE HUGE FUNDS . . . WE CAN NEITHER HALT YOUR CLEVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

This reaction has been of unusual interest to TIME'S editors. For them, the story of Historian Toynbee and his work in progress was an unusual challenge and opportunity. They were concerned with introducing to TIME'S readers a creative scholar whose deliberations on the course of civilizations were not widely known in the U.S. outside of academic circles. But seldom has an academic subject been so newsworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Cratchitts" by Charles Dickens. When George Santayana '86 and Robert Benchley '12 heard it in their respective college days, it provoked them to diverse literary expression on the piece. The humorist was inspired to parody, and the philosopher to eulogy of Copeland as "an artist rather than a scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copeland, at 87, Preserves Unbowed Health and Political Individualism | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina in 1921, Wilson spent three years at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, receiving his Ph.D. in 1927. After returning to this country, he taught Romance languages for two years at North Carolina, followed by 13 years of editorial work with Henry Hall and Company, and Reynal and Hitchcock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson to Take Over University Press This July; Succeeds Scaife | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

...check into the dimmer past, however, reveals that Sam was also something of a scholar and athlete during his undergraduate days. While pulling down Ed.M. and A.M. degrees in history, he played Freshman soccer, basketball, and baseball, following in the latter two sports with three Varsity seasons apiece, while serving also for one year on the Jayvee football squad and for two more on the Varsity. The high point of this athletic career was reached on the basketball court, where, Sam admits, lies his greatest love. In 1921 he captained the Freshman quintet, and in his Senior year he held...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

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