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...strong-arm methods-as many another tyrant has learned-are not always the worst thing a religion has to fear. Warned 16-year-long China Missionary Samuel E. Boyle: "The danger now facing the Chinese churches is not that of physical persecution. The real peril is spiritual -in yielding to the temptation to accept half-slavery...
...University of California was beginning to feel some unpleasant effects of its year-long battle over the loyalty oath. Last week the American Psychological Association, meeting in convention at Pennsylvania State College, served notice that it was urging its 7,300 members not to take jobs at California.*The reason, said the association: by firing six† professors for refusing to say whether they were Communists or not, the university had violated academic freedom...
...front of the neighbors' television set, guests should sit for at least 20 minutes in a darkened room before driving home. This friendly tip to the audience was offered last week by Dr. John C. Neill of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania State College of Optometry. Reporting .on a year-long study of TV's effect on the eyes, Dr. Neill concluded that the human eye becomes so light-adapted in the glare of the television screen that it suffers up to a 40% loss in night vision...
...year-long era of the beaver trade came to a close (largely be cause U.S. hatmakers began using silk in stead of beaver in men's toppers), and "it closed forever," writes Author Cleland...
...will finance the first six months of what may be a year-long experiment. Howell will spot the clouds he wants to bombard by radar. Then he will either shoot rockets or drop pellets into the clouds from airplanes, causing ice formation, which precipitates rain...