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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace over to the greed, the fear and the intrigue of European nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...enter fighting for democracy abroad we may end by losing it at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...months ago the pinwheel brain of U. S. industry's most whimsical and unpredictable inventor threw out another spark. Convinced that what the U. S. needs and wants is a good, low-cost, small plane, mop-haired, 59-year-old William Bushnell Stout decided to re-enter aviation. Already mocked-up last week in his faded yellow Stout Engineering Laboratories in Dearborn, Mich, was a snug two-seater slated for mass production at about $3,000. (Specifications: four cylinder, 75-h.p. motor, 450-mile cruising range, tricycle landing gear, controls so limited that the pilot will not be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Turtle to Batwing | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY" | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...glee club--usually "just happen," and are the most fun that way. Until they get out of hand, they provide the balance necessary for a well-rounded education; and together, academics and social life make more than an idle aspiration of that legend above the Wigglesworth gate: "Enter to grow in wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY" | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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