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...Every unit that is unable to advance must accept death rather than abandon that part of the national territory entrusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Greatest Battle | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Some physicists, among them myself, cannot believe that we must abandon, actually and forever, the idea of direct representation of physical reality in space and time; or that we must accept the view [supported by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics] that events in nature are analogous to a game of chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Baffled Sage | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Challenged candidates for the Presidency and Congress to abandon "glittering generalities and specious promises," to state "just how you would change the laws if you were in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Within One Hour | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...condemnation of the Soviet Union in no way implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Student Union Rejects H.S.U. Plan to Condemn Russia | 4/30/1940 | See Source »

Harvard ski racers will abandon their hickories for the season, officially anyway, after the traditional Harvard-Dartmouth slalom this Sunday, which will be set by Walter Prager on the near-perpendicular slepes of Tuckerman's Ravine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Will End Successful Season Sunday in Annual Dartmouth Slalom | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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