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I know there are many loyal and intelligent citizens of the United States who think such a pledge both unnecessary and unwise. They think we can prosper as a nation even if Hitler and his allies dominate the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia--provided that we in turn dominate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF PRESIDENT CONANT'S ADDRESS | 11/21/1940 | See Source »

In Edgewood's big classrooms, in the fields of the reservation, they will study for seven weeks the weapon that Germany first effectively introduced to modern warfare on April 22, 1915, when she turned chlorine loose on unprepared British troops at Ypres. In World War II Germany has so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: School for Noses | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Practical Parson | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

I am only one of the 16 million human organisms who happened to be thrown by the progeniting hands of God into these "seven thousand emeralds" that decorate the western brim of the greatest oceanic basin. Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Last week Joe Widener, ailing at 68, announced, through his son P. A. B. Widener II, that the family pictures (and equally choice statuary, tapestries, porcelains, rugs, jewels) would go to the National Gallery in Washington, now being built with money donated by the late Andrew Mellon. Manhattan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Widener to Washington | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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