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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy and tactics, Stalin's followers - and his intended victims - have to understand the inner theory and program. Historicus puts his heaviest stress on Stalin's use of fixed theory right along with and intermeshed with shifting tactics. Stalin employs both, simultaneously. Most politicians of the West tend to bear down on one or the other, in a given situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Care & Feeding Of Revolutions | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...After questioning by the grand jury, the committee subpoenaed him, hammered him with questions but got nowhere. He said he was not a Communist, but he refused to answer almost all other questions on the grounds that it would "tend to incriminate or degrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Rings | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Clause and Rohr countered that education in many states is not as bad as statistics tend to show. The states, they claimed, aren't making enough of an effort to settle their own schooling problems. Federal aid might well destroy the initiative of local education units, the Crimson debaters added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bates Team Beats Crimson Debaters | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...England men tend to be more muscular than Texans, while Protestants are thinner than Catholics. The Army disclosed those findings yesterday after studying a report submitted last summer by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Finds Yankee Muscles Big | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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