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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement "preposterous!" She admitted, however, that she "had never dressed so messily in all my life before coming to Radcliffe," but aware that "my morals are the same as they were." She allowed that she had purchased her fist pair of sneakers yesterday, but was afraid that "they would look too sloppy any place but at Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Defends Female Sloppiness | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...that a blue segment is between the tube and the eye of the viewer whenever a "blue" field is flashing on the tube. So the eye sees the field in blue. When a "red" field is on the tube, a red segment of the disc makes that frame look red. In the same way, "green" fields are made to look-green. The three one-color fields, following one another quickly, are blended by the eye to form a full color picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...York University was not alone. A special curriculum committee set up by New York City's Board of Education had also been wondering about comic books, In its last report, the committee cautiously recommended that New York teachers begin to look into them as a possible "educational device for the slow learners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Things They Teach, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...work matters more than mission budgets, and who acts accordingly. While her fellow workers trim their efforts to the capacity of the church purse, India packs her mission house with street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission inspectors arrive on a checkup, their budgetary ax falls on Jasmine Hall and India Severn's lifework is destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Second Spring | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore, it may be even harder to draw the line between the effects attributable to a Harvard education and the mere continuation of personality traits which have formed in a person before college. When we look at a Harvard graduate, how are we to know--even with the help of self-evaluation--whether he is a "whole man" because of Harvard or in spite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council and the 'Whole Man' | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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