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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department has had no difficulty this fail and anticipates none in the coming weekend, he said. The John Harvard statue will receive only its usual protection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Webs Will Stop Pranksters | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

With the pronounced drop in the University's reserve balances, it becomes painfully evident that these weak departments must either raise more endowment for themselves or else cut their budgets. Should the first alternative fail, Harvard might someday have to decide that such things as "athletics for all," and the third biggest library in the country are shows too big to maintain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dwindling Reserves | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...disease tends to breed in families where serious, long-standing social problems exist," Dr. Robert Jackson of the University of Iowa reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Students of rheumatic fever cannot fail to learn how important wholesome family life is to the welfare of children, and how devastating immoral practices, such as selfishness, greed, drunkenness, promiscuity and divorce, are to wholesome family life. Only when an attack on these complicated detrimental forces is made, utilizing supernatural and natural resources, can one hope for the eradication of this scourge of childhood."* Citing his study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homework | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...bring into the picture both nearby Iron Curtain countries and Western European communists. Essentially they are trying to reduce the complex issue to a simple, individual case that can be solved upon consideration of a few elementary facts. Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail to see the political factor in the situation, the people who think in terms of the immediate politics of the case fail to perceive the higher level of policy. They fail to see not only the world-wide implications of aid to Tito, but also the pastern of foreign policy...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

There is the crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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