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...years later an angel named Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college at Cambridge, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Woman | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Oriental Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...with thousands of butter lamps, frequently lasted from sunrise to sunset, with 10,000 monks repeating one chant up to 108,000 times. Author Bernard braved the black chamber of horrors filled with fiendish and erotic idols, kept his head during four days of solitary confinement in a rock cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Lama | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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