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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberation. He was born of a wealthy family in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783. As a young traveler in Rome, where he refused to kiss the Pope's slipper, he had his first vision of a free South America. Rising one day from the base of a column, he cried: "On my life and honor, I swear not to rest until I have liberated America from her tyrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Libertador | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Couples in a Dance." Well known to every first-year biology student, the paramecium is a one-celled, slipper-shaped little animal which lives in ponds and puddles. In the one-celled kingdom the paramecium is a giant, just visible to a good, sharp, naked eye. For three years Dr. Herbert Spencer Jennings, distinguished University of California at Los Angeles zoologist,* has been watching a thousand generations of one species, Paramecium bur-saria, under his microscope. Last week he told about his paramecia's mating habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reproduction, Rings, Rivers | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...that each tells something different to every onlooker. Immunity (see cut) shows a placid feminine face resting on a hand, amid the broken sections of a wheel. In Waiting an old woman looks down two flights of stairs, while a clock's hand nears 12 and a high-heeled slipper crosses from one flight to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptors | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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