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...profit motive, Father Smith said, was "legitimate if kept within bounds [but] the primary purpose of an economic system is to provide a living for all and not, therefore, huge profits for the few, with some measure of what remains trickling down to the lower levels. This is the age-old traditional Catholic teaching. Unfortunately . . . even among Catholics ... it has received scarcely any support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Lunge, parry, thrust. For 19 years Coach Rene Perey has been grooming undergrads in how to pink their opponents most gracefully and efficiently in the age-old art of fencing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

...different kind of party for these three-year-old children of Harvard students. Twenty of them, representing Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, gathered in the Harvard University Nursery School yesterday and kindled the seven branched menorah in joint observance of the age-old Hebrew festival of Chanukah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nursery Learns Tolerance at Yuletide, Chanukah Parties | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...Congratulations on the story of India-Pakistan [TIME, Oct. 27]. After reading this masterpiece of reporting, the people of America certainly have a better understanding of the age-old problems facing present-day India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Hopson, who is now in the market for a partner to bring capital into a growing enterprise, has built his gimmick--now retailing for $70--around the age-old standby and social catalyst of a tray of ice cubes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus' Gadget Puts New Zest into Zombies | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

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