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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give the first half. Instead of the "important periods" approach, followed in the last two years, the course will become a survey, emphasizing cultural aspects and including source book reading and research papers. Such irksome details as map-making will be eliminated. In other words, the new course will proceed in a different, and, it is hoped, more palatable way, while still providing an historical framework for further study in European civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Ironsides | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

General Education seems to be the most logical place for a Romance literature survey. G.E. is already offering a study in the Renaissance next year, and could proceed to a more general course in the future along the lines of either "great period" courses or simple historical surveys. The form of the study can be a subject for the sort of intelligent experimentation that General Education has conducted since its beginning. But whatever the exact pattern, non-specialists should have the chance to study Romance literatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course for G.E. | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Farley sent Cat a cable asking what he should do, and was told to "Proceed immediately to the Daimler-Benz engine plant in Germany and look at their engines." He brought back five different models. From them and others collected from all over the world, Cat perfected its own diesel. By the late 19303, Cat's diesels had replaced their gasoline engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Big Cat | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...sorry legacy and had no policy except to sue for peace with the Reds. The Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had won the war; he could dictate the terms of peace. What Mao wanted was power to put China in the Communist bloc. That he already had. He could proceed along the path of compromise and coalition certain that, with Chiang's passing, the back of anti-Communist resistance in China had been broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: What Can Li Do? | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Guided by Author Fenwick's inflexible hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ahoy, Polloi! | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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