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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of experience on children have shown that an individual's view of an object depends not only on its physical properties but also on the person's values, needs, and frustrations at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Grass on the Other Side Is Taller, Too' | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...soldiers and toy Indians are helping the Social Relations Department prove that the same thing looks different to the same person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Grass on the Other Side Is Taller, Too' | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Remember 1900. "Suppose," he said, "someone in the year 1900 had predicted that within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Rich, Full Life | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storm in Mississippi | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence of all the performers owes much to Mr. Massey, who directed the play...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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