Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before leaving, the garrison of 80,000 Nationalists blew up the Pearl River bridge, damaged the city's power plant, set fire to airfield installations. Then it broke into two fleeing parts. The bulk moved into the hinterland where the Reds had not yet penetrated. A smaller group headed toward the sea and ships that would carry them to Hainan and Formosa...
...farther. The Tennessee-born president, onetime-teacher in a one-room schoolhouse who rose to become associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board, wants to make Duke's graduate schools stronger still. "Our intellectual resources in the South," says he, "exceed all other resources. Yet none of these resources has been more neglected at the highest level." Founder Duke had wanted his university to be one of the nation's top producers of "preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these . . . can do most to uplift mankind." President Edens will be working on that...
...revisionists": "We have here a touching afterglow of the admirable nineteenth-century faith in the full rationality and perfectibility of man; the faith that the errors of the world would all in time be outmoded ... by progress. Yet the experience of the twentieth century has made it clear that we gravely overrated man's capacity to solve the problems of existence...
...design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from the Matisse windows. "You understand?" he said to a TIME reporter at Nice last week, "the colors do not exist, yet they exist...
...book-reviewing business, which is not generally noted for its high pay, the Times's book section is an oasis of prosperity, if not brilliance. But Lester Markel knows, more intimately than most, that it is not yet doing a first-rate job. The Sunday book section, now frankly a "news book review," tries to balance its major reviews with quick looks at minor books, literary letters from overseas, interviews with big-name authors and book-trade gossip. New Editor Brown expects to do it better. Said Markel hopefully last week: "We'll get along. Brownie knows...