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...Coffin Nail? The majority's plan had many points of agreement with one proposed by bridge& -peace expert Ely Culbertson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Perilous Fission | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...week's end there were no signs that the Dublin statement had tapped any deep springs of world statism in the U.S. About all the Dubliners had actually done was to drive one more nail in U.N.O.'s coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Perilous Fission | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...hours prison doctors labored over the prostrate Auvergnat with emetics and stomach pumps. They postponed his death, but they could not make him stand up. The firing squad waited. At length two men escorted him to the stake. A hearse stood by, a coffin rested on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Without Honor | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...come forth," and Lazarus came forth with no account of anything unusual having occurred. . . . How about his soul? Lazarus was the soul himself. When Lazarus was dead his soul was also dead ("asleep" the Bible calls it). Also the young man whose funeral Jesus broke up. He stopped the coffin and said, "Young man, I say unto thee arise." The young man arose and his sleeping soul arose with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

About 30 minutes short of the end, an improvised coffin is borne solemnly to rest in a resonant stone vault. Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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