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...armed camp" cause of the Great War, and now the Munich Pact is being pointed out to them. But the third class is the one mind which can most easily be administered to by a dose of rationalization. This group reads that a single new poison gas bomb can wipe out hundreds of thousands of people and whole cities. A kind of popular propaganda has led this group to believe that the Satan vs. God war in Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered just a slight scuffle compared to the next Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMA VIRUMQUE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

...differential." It consists of a series of plates punched full of holes (see cut). Like scientists who make models of atomic structures, Count Alfred, who is head of the Institute of General Semantics, expects important developments from his implement. With it and the theory it illustrates, he hopes to wipe out mankind's time-worn thinking habits, revolutionize its educational systems, create a sane new world. Last week he reported progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: General Semantics | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope and the whole school rapturously watched Principal Hoxton grab it. For their misdeeds the boys get demerits, which they must wipe off before they are graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School's looth | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Then there was the Princeton game, the game before the Cadet headache. It was gridiron justice that Vernon Struck, Harvard's great spinning back from Contralia, Illinois, should wipe out all memories of missing the crucial point at Yale the year before by playing a truly sensational game to lead the team to a 34-6 victory...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Football's Fourth Season Under Reins of Head Coach Harlow Gets Under Way September 9 for Earliest Start Since War | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Although President Cárdenas does not want to wipe out the priest or the Church as have some of his predecessors, the job of his village teachers is to combat the in fluence of those "propagators of superstition," the village priests. Individualists and pious Mexicans make things hot for the President's idealistic school teachers. Twenty-five have been murdered so far this year. The peasants have developed a fondness for cutting off the ears of teach ers they do not care to murder. So the President's teachers all tote guns, and frequently have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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