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...write poems about. T. S. Eliot is a thinking and a feeling man, and a Christian ; he is not a happy man. The commentator on a tragedy cannot be expected to sound like a radio announcer lip-deep in molasses. He may sometimes crackle, but he will never snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, David E. Owen, professor of History, and Beer concurred that the Labor government could not keep control of Parliament for long. "A snap vote is bound to defeat them," and Beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor's Slim Margin Bodes III, Faculty Members Agree | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

Moving in on the tail of a cold snap that had classgoers shivering for two days, winter storms laid six to eight inches of snow over New England yesterday in time for Washington's Birthday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six to Eight Inches of Snow Follow Cold Snap; Skiers Take Advantage | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...Angeles." To drive the point home, Managing Editor Campbell himself wrote a blistering editorial, "Black Robes Should Not Cover Proceedings in Los Angeles Courts." Next day, for good measure, Aggie Underwood and all the other city editors sent swarms of photographers to Judge Nourse's courtroom to snap more pictures-any pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To Shoot or Not to Shoot | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Magnificent Sir | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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