Search Details

Word: various (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

There is something curious about the phrase "peace offensive." Something curious and something ominous. Strictly speaking, it has been used to suggest that various Russian and Russian-in-spired statements which seem to be peacefully inclined are actually nothing of the sort. Instead, the words "peace offensive" indicate, these statements are snares for the unsophisticated and delusions for the unenlightened, serving only propaganda purposes, and having no resemblance to a genuine effort to come to some sort of general settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counter-Offensive | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

Social Scientists will seek to discover how each city looks at itself and at other parts of the world. From this data the group hopes to find out why conflicts between various nations arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Flies Back from Paris | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

Stevens came to Harvard from Stanford in 1932 and received his Ph.D. a year later. He held various posts in the psychology department until in 1944 he became an associate professor of Psychology and was appointed Director of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, located in the basement of Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stevens Succeeds Boring as Director of Psychology Lab | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

Reporter Schou got in touch with Dr. Jacobsen and followed the story as it developed over the succeeding months. Danish medical periodicals reported on various aspects of it, but not until the interim review of the first 500 patients to be treated with antabus was published in November did Schou consider the story solid. He submitted it to TIME'S Medicine editor, and it was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Apparently the Fergana Valley is shot through & through with uranium deposits of various kinds. In 1923, V. I. Popov reported one at Uigar-sai that he said compared favorably to "many carnotite sites in the U.S.A." In 1928, intense radioactivity was reported at the western end of the valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure Hunt | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | Next