Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan...
...World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American intervention . . . plans to betray and subjugate us. I disagree with my colleagues...
Dale Carnegie, whose How to Win Friends & Influence People struck just the right note with U.S. readers a decade ago, was getting something ready for 1948: How to Stop Worrying...
...social" sciences, said Conant, should stop being coldly neutral toward "value judgments." They should take a moral stand, like Medicine, which comes right out and admits 1) that life is better than death, 2) that health is better than sickness, and 3) that the well-being of people is important. Conant suggested that the social sciences agree to a kind of Hippocratic oath which would state as their objective the doctoring of democracy. "The empiricism of the past may be a sufficient guide for the masters of a police state," he said, "but an open society with our ideals requires...
...President James B. Conant of Harvard on "The Role of Science in our Unique Society." Conant seemed worried, as most thoughtful scientists are, by the horrifying weapons and powerful techniques that Jacob-science has put into the hairy military hands of Esau. The remedy, he thought, is not to stop research (it can't be done) but to give more thought to the sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology) which study Man and his relationships with his fellow...