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...immediate solution of anything, Union Now is satisfactory only to the interventionists. Its wider adoption will have to await the disposition of the more immediate question of war and peace. To hide that fact is to play a shell-game with the American people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Step Closer, Folks | 4/22/1941 | See Source »

...segregation of incorrigibles. They have worldly circumstance in their favor, but their destruction comes from within. They live and breathe--Mr. Schorer's powers of characterization are extraordinary--but luckily they are only a segment of the race. The falsity of their idol, however, has a wider symbolism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

...people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new. Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider area than the famed British grid. Eleven of them have combined assets of well over $400,000,000. But compared with Grand Coulee and Bonneville, the Northwest's private power resources are minuscule. When they reach their combined ultimate capacity of 2,438,400 kilowatts, the Bonneville Power Administration (which administers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Dr. Raver Marches On | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

FROM its last year's form of a few mimeographed sheets of official information loosely stapled together, the Harvard Naval Reserve Bulletin has developed into an attractively bound, well-written monthly magazine which has a wider undergraduate circulation than the Guardian or the Advocate. The contents are mostly of an esoteric nature, but several of the articles are of general interest...

Author: By E. G., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...holding of evangeistic services in our churches will not meet his problem. Even such a united effort as he National Christian Mission, as valuable as that was, did not reach the masses if our population. . . . Sporadic efforts at revival services will no longer suffice-our efforts must be wider and more sustained. In the meantime, we recommend to our churches the absolute necessity of renewed effort to secure the absolute commitment of our members to Jesus Christ. In mathematics one-half plus one-half may equal one, but this formula will not obtain in religion. We cannot add two half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For a Coherent Pattern | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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