Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...text had been kept secret even from Jimmy Byrnes until last week, six months after the time when military necessity might have excused a hush-hush policy. While it had a military consideration (Russia's joining in the Japanese war), the agreement itself was as political as a pork barrel. Stalin's help in the Far East was to be rewarded with the Kuril Islands, an "independent" Mongolia and all Tsarist Russia's Far East rights. Roosevelt promised to get China's concurrence. This Yalta deal was the basis of last year's Sino-Russian...
Expediency and an extraordinary personalization of government had made possible this disposal of men and territories in private conversation. Just how binding the word of three men could be on the whole world was evident in their statement in the text: "The heads of the three great Powers have agreed that these claims of the Soviet Union shall be unquestionably fulfilled...
...college heads sent Professor Cole packing off to Maine to write a text on physics and the modern world, precisely because he was an amateur in the subject. They guessed rightly that the freshmen would understand it better if a nonscientist wrote it. Professor Cole compressed a summer's reading into some 100 pages, which the Physics Department promptly approved; he thought the assignment "a lot of fun." He is the kind of man who, when he accepted a post as visiting lecturer at Yale, spent the time commuting from Amherst teaching himself Spanish...
...studious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Houston was a college physics teacher at 20, a full professor at Cal Tech at 31, at 34 the author of a definitive text in mathematical physics. For several years during the 'war he worked on anti-submarine devices at Columbia University. No backslapping endowment hustler, Physicist Houston intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people...
...public funds could be used to sup port Shinto shrines or priests. The Emperor could no longer report on public matters to his ancestors in official visits to the shrines. But he and other officials could worship as private individuals. Shinto doctrine would "be deleted from text books...