Word: afar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bless and keep the one afar...
...miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word of His teachings brought to people who heard them from afar...
...pestilence and famine, caused by overpopulation, would slap down presumptuous man. This did not happen. The world's population had doubled since Malthus' time, from one billion to two, but new lands were cultivated and old lands made more productive. Better transportation brought surplus food from afar to feed the hungry industrial cities. There were local famines, as there had always been, but the world never ran out of food. The gloomy Malthus, who had underestimated both nature's resources and man's resourcefulness, had been wrong...
...publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner...
...years I have admired you from afar and have loved your little old magazine like a brother. But now I hate you, I hate you. My reason? Your report of the studies of one Professor N. Tinbergen (a likely name!) in re the procreative functions of sticklebacks [TIME...