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Only when speculation about his successor began was Lord Lothian's success fully apparent.* He had arrived in the U. S. five days before the war began, at a moment when the U. S. was doubly suspicious of all foreign-especially all British-propaganda. At his death a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Death of Lothian | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

In the historical perspective, the economic doctrines, as milestones in capitalistic development, assume a fuller meaning than they possess on the blackboard. In the chaos of the vacuum, they provide, indeed, the celebrated "principles"--which the bewildered student drops one by one as he enters the labyrinth of real-life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EC DEPARTMENT--1 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Revolution | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING & TRUTH-Bertrand Russell-Norton ($3.75).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking About Thinking | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Meaning & Truth. So does Oliver L. Reiser, philosophy professor at the University of Pittsburgh, who then proceeds "toward a unification of scientific, religious, social and economic thought" in The Promise of Scientific Humanism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking About Thinking | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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