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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that most of the great works of devotive music must be omitted, is it a sufficient reason that Harvard's official listing as a men's institution makes it a dishonesty to mix the sexes under the University name? In spite of their refusal to use openly the horriffic word, other University officials have welcomed, or at least accepted, a form of co-education. While others brace themselves to the brave new world where women exist, the church seeks refuge in a murky past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exodus | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...production. The Con mine (Consolidated Mining & Smelting) and the Giant Yellowknife mine (expected to be the area's biggest producer) would be producing soon, as would a half-dozen others. Besides, some 250 other companies, most of them new and almost all of them with the alluring word "Yellowknife"* in their names, were busy prospecting, drilling, promoting and hoping. They had plenty of reason for hope. With all its curtailments and setbacks, Yellowknife has already produced more than $14,000,000 worth of gold (up to the end of 1944), and has created many a private fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: The Forty-Sixers | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...yous, keep back, keep back, give him space there") was a famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy ("if you knew all you should know, you wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor, Dear, Dead Men | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Simonov added a word about national policy in answer to a question about the chauvinism of the Russian press: "If I thought American press slander of the U.S.S.R. were typical of the United States, I should never have come to visit...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Ehrenburg and Simonov Highlight Nieman Fellow Weekend Reunion | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Blood Stream | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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