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...Russia has the atomic bomb, can't they knock the devil out of Europe? I don't know. We have to help Europe-the question is how much? Is that our main purpose? Should we make plans for defeating Russia on the European continent, or should we depend on air power? I've been primarily an air man, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. I don't know. It ought to be re-examined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in a New Hat | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Brown will certainly have to depend on its own passing game as well as the strong running plays which can develop from the "X-T." On one of those, the "X" back (right-half) cuts diagonally across into the left side of the line. The quarterback fakos a handoff, and then gives to the fullback, who has charged straight over right guard...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Brown Football Team Has One Win in Six Tries | 11/18/1950 | See Source »

...After all," Carmichael states, "if we are merely interested in getting men into the forces, we may become begged down in infantry, thinking." And when it comes to infantry, Russia will always be ahead of us. We must depend on our skill...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Battle Over Student Draft Goes On | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...into its own economy. This is the annoying detail which is perhaps best left out of an idealistic report. But it is the annoying detail the U. S. must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent and to remain allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gray Prospect | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...delighted in. His great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly knew. He came close at times to that terrible condition of the old in contemporary England, who discover that there is no one to depend on and for whom the mere mechanics of living have become tragically difficult. At the illness of a servant during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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