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...this question was put to Earth, reports Hauge, he replied that "in such a situation, it would be important for the Christian to preserve his calm and his sense of humor . . . When a state begins to exhibit the marks that Christians recognize as belonging to the Beast from the Abyss, they must not rush to embrace the extreme alternatives of submission or martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Trouble with Keeping Calm | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain's top Socialist ministers. Nothing, however, that Tailor & Cutter discerned in Westminster or the wastes of the U.S. could quite equal the awful abyss it found in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clothes Make the Communist | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Across the abyss of a dozen years, Alger and Priscilla Hiss made their careful and precise defense to the accusations of Whittaker and Esther Chambers. Step by step, four quiet, middle-aged people were drawing near the climax of their tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Stumps | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...ideological sink" which had spawned the treachery. For Communists who were still safe at home, Nep offered a little fatherly advice: "The important thing (to remember) is that treason against the party, deviation from the Marxist-Leninist line, is a steep slope from which plunging into the imperialist abyss is easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Down the Sink | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Short of dragging a mechanical thinking machine into the exam room, science has not yet succeeded in developing anything for students who loom on the edge of academic abyss during exam period. But a Dr. William Brady of Chicago claims he has an answer to the perennial problem. The men at 15 Holyoke st. say he doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vitamins Key to A's, Says Doctor | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

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