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Word: centrally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roman Catholic Church is perfectly correct in making immortality its central doctrine, as the primary reason for Our Lord's Incarnation, and in centering its worship upon the Eucharist, the "medicine of immortality." That is the correct Catholic instinct, fulfilling what, from my psychological studies, I have concluded is the primary instinct of man-the desire for immortality, that hope which is behind all the myths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Murder in the Mountains | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Tells Dentists They Can Get Anthropology Data | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond Ennui | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Route. In Phoenix, Ariz., Howard Lampton advertised in the Phoenix Republic's "Lost" column: "Teeth, uppers near Avalon on South Central; lowers near Riverside ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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