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"Aow! Now why didn't you say so?" Wooden Soldiers. It is Graves's grave conclusion that the growing decadence of what was once called Christendom is leading to a point where even when the swearer has a full, fruity vocabulary his soul will be too withered to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fine Art of Swearing | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Last month, burly, gimlet-eyed Joseph Dunninger, who describes himself as a "mentalist," titillated his TV audience by reading what was in the mind of Rhode Island's Congressman Aime Forand, who was standing on the steps of the Capitol, 225 miles away. (Forand was thinking: "American citizenship is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Important 95% | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Ski Coach Bill Halsey avers a halting optimism and team members anything but, as the Dartmouth Carnival looms a day away.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

The appearance of a bright football guard seems to be fused with a pleasing reticence in Wilbur J. Bender. But though he enjoys watching football, he avers he knows nothing about it technically, is not a fisherman, and fills his sparse spare time by reading history texts. All in all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

Personality out of Prejudice. Author Sartre concludes his essay with a few sharp words directed at those who are merely "prejudiced" against Jews. Such "secondhand anti-Semites," he avers, tend to feel that way because they feel very little else: anti-Semitic prejudice "allows them to assume the appearance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews & Uncle Jules | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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