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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Communist Kim: "Koreans will not, and cannot leave our destiny to American imperialists and their hirelings, the U.N. Commission." Then he made the usual obeisance: "Long live the Soviet army and the Soviet people and their great leader, Comrade Stalin, benefactor and liberator of the Korean nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Portent | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...great markets of La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ready for Battle | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...asked his hospital commissioner for advice. The advice: slow down. A possible alternative: coronary thrombosis. "Is that the thing," inquired the Mayor, "that blows you over?" He was told that it is. "It's a good thing to know," said he, and proceeded to charge around much as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Every morning, the students file into the bare assembly room, the boys seating themselves on one side and the girls on the other, for daily worship. The meeting begins with the usual few moments of silence. Then Principal Walton slowly unwinds his long legs and rises to read from the Bible. There is a period of silence again, and the pupils file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quakers with the New Look | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...twentieth century and acknowledged the existence of sex. If Radcliffe makes the same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call it "Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call it "Sex Hygiene," as is the usual custom, the fact should be faced that a course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will suggest, that most local students would stand little to learn from such a course; but it is more likely that enough undergraduates to fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

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