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"Above all, we must select leaders whose promises we can trust. . . . We question that the men who were unable to foresee . . . conditions in time to avoid them, who could not foresee the war in time to prepare for it, who refused to believe the reports of rearming abroad when there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minds Made Up | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

"We find the same men who have led us to the greatest national debt in our history now telling us that as a nation we are weak and unprepared; that we must appropriate more billions of dollars, and devote more years of time, to building up our military forces.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minds Made Up | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

How much longer is the Crimson going to sulk in its lonely ivory tower? The editorial of Monday, October 14, betrays a state of mind in the editors which would be comically naive, were it not so dangerous to the safety of our country. The editorial said, in regard to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

On a few evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIARY SHOWS THAT HARVARD MEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO SAME AS TODAY | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

So she went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lieu of Zola | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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