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...cries Author Reynolds, "for a magic carpet of infinite dimensions that could transport all the leaking drains and condemned closets from all the slums of the Empire and heap them in Downing Street [as an] object lesson. . . !" Viewed from his standpoint of the philosopher-sanitarian, the course of world history is essentially intestinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Private Matter | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Today C.U. offers five productions a season, for three weeks each. From a box-office standpoint, they could easily run much longer. But if they did, Father Hartke remarks, the student-actors' grades would take some awful nosedives. Even as it is, they almost always drop. But the stagecraft holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway Breeding-Ground | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...that atmosphere the familiar daily Crimson was an anachronism. Not only was there no need for it, but publication was impossible from a practical standpoint. Recognizing this fact the editors suspended the newspaper, and entrusted the task of supplying news coverage to the Crimson's protege: The Harvard Service News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CRIMSON TO RETURN APRIL 9 | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

...most desirable from the Chinese standpoint, and ours . . . that numbers of Japanese be retained in subordinate capacities which cannot be filled by qualified Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Make Mischief | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...attitude on denazification differed from the Russian and U.S. policies. A Briton explained that it did not matter much if the head of a public-utility system was a Nazi: "We tell the bahstads what to do, you know, so their political beliefs make no difference really." From the standpoint of getting things done efficiently with a minimum occupation staff, the British system worked. Its effect on the political future of Germany was another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Temperature Down | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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