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THE WITHERED ROOT-Rhys Davies-Holt ($2.50). "You Welsh! A race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystic Joy | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

CAMBRIC TEA - Rebecca Lowrie - Harpers ($2.00). Author Lowrie has re- membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golly-Golly | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Harvard's canvas, never really idle, any more than is the canvas of any privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER "CRYING NEED" | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

TIME is the most radical, most conservative, most damnable, most altruistic, most agnostic, most religious, most international, most national, most communistic, most democratic, most social, most socialistic, most hated, most lovable, most suppressive and most newsy magazine published; thereby it is self defense that I hand you herewith two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salute | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Professor Givler held that criticism of religion was simply a characteristic of this generation to investigate and to get at the root of all things. "Every atheist should be made a saint by the church for the healthy criticism he has given it", he said. Closing his arguments with an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSATIONAL DUEL OF WORDS ENDS IN STRATON'S DEFEAT | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

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