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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holland in 1918, the Dutch people fed and helped starving German children, but the same children came back in 1940 with tanks and hand grenades to kill their well-doers-and history will repeat itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Said Francesco Mauri at nearby Cutro: "This land will be ours as soon as it is cleared, or we will lie dead upon it. They may kill us, but we won't leave the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Mad Method | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...problem created by the 72 rush hours might be handled by scheduling only elementary language and military science exams--which don't call for many essay questions and are thus graded more rapidly--on that last day of exams. But this would kill the system of rotating tests, a system which keeps students from having the same schedule two terms in a row and keeps instructors from enduring the same schedule several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Schedule | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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