Search Details

Word: cains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Piety. The first murder in Biblical history was whitewashed in this wise by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke of the University of London: "I want to point out that Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nottingham Lace | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...University of Washington, clinching its claim to the Pacific Coast Conference championship, roll up its biggest score in 34 games (40-10-0) against Washington State. First two touchdowns and the last were made by Sophomore Fullback Albert Cruver. One each went to Byron Haines and Jim Cain, spark-plugs of the Washington backfield since the season's start. Another touchdown rewarded one of the year's trickiest plays-a lateral from Nowogroski to Cain, who forwarded to Dick Johnson. Next day, after a secret poll to pick the West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively in each. Washington has represented the West in the Rose Bowl twice before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Washington's mighty line, piled like the Sierras on each side of Centre Wiatrak, made the 15-yd. line the nearest to a score Southern California could get. Washington's able backs, paced by All-America Candidate Cain, gained 197 yards, 12 points to 122 yards, 0 points for Southern California. Between Washington and the Rose Bowl now looms only Washington State's, triple threat. Ed Goddard, on Thanksgiving Day in Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | Next