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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know very well that there is no simple solution to this problem. But I can neither understand nor excuse a Government which is too timid or befuddled to attempt a solution. . . . Even 75 to 100 million dollars in the present bill before the Congress for emergency aid to China would change the entire situation psychologically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: We Are Bankrupt | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...electronics will make the machine over 200 times as fast as Mark I, which itself can solve any 23-place multiplication problem in less than five seconds. A large internal memory capacity will also be featured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Super-Brain May Surpass First Two Calculators | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

Replenishment of European Bibles destroyed by the hand of war, and by the anti-clericalism of the totalitarian states has emerged as the foremost immediate problem of the Society. Early last year Dr. Martin Niemoeller was furnished with 1000 Bibles to give to German pastors who had been forced to subsist on Mein Kampf for over a decade. As soon as Japan surrendered, native Christian leaders requested an immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

Seeing pictures in Boston frequently poses a problem of sorts, an end-result of the Hub's almost inevitable end-of-the-line spot when first-run dates are being dished out. Thus it often is difficult to find films free from the deluge of critical acclaim or dismay that the New York papers and the weekly magazines unloose. Such a case is the one at hand, for the sheaves of outpourings, pro and con, in regard to this Danny Kaye extravaganza make it rather difficult to uncover anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

Protestant Minister Willard Johnson wrote: "The whole problem of relationship of religion to government remains to be settled. . . . This is certainly one part of the 'American Way' which is undergoing change. The historic attitudes of all religious groups, developed at a time when church and state were either united or struggling for dominance, cannot solve the problem. New concepts must be developed for modern conditions, and they should be set forth by all creeds together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Concepts | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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