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...with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...

Author: By Douglas Bush and Professor OF English, S | Title: BUSH RECALLS AWE AND GRATITUDE AROUSED BY SCHOLAR'S MAJESTY | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...Mark you, also, that birth control is heralded as a benedicton to the poor, because, forsooth, the poor have too many children and are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast upon the humble homes of our people a more offensive insult. Children are welcomed among the poor and the humble as angels and are treasured as jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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