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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost in the strident Afrikaans outburst was the calmer voice of former Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, who pleaded: "Let this monument of our genesis be ... a symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent: "If you want our country to flourish and be happy, then you must take us with you, not as your subordinates . . . but as your equals at your side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: On Dingaan's Day | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Sergei Yermakov '52, a Yugoslavian of Russian descent, left his homeland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope around various parts of his body and slides down the wall in ten-feet bounds. Physics concentrators who note how the original potential energy is conserved during the descent will appreciate the one big drawback to rapelling...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Grail | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...should take interest and express opinions in college affairs. Last year's article on "The Jew at Harvard," and later the discussion of the club system, were directed toward this end. By editorializing on some of the controversial problems of college life, the Advocate gives impetus to its descent from the yellow pedestal of pure letters...

Author: By Parker Hayden, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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