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...Roger D. Lapham's administrative assistant, David Lewis: "We are taking up Romans' now because that Book is an exposition of the law of a Christian. There are some attorneys in the group and we decided to start there. It is a thorough going-over of self-conceit and pride."* The group, organized 14 weeks ago, began reading Romans, hoped to discuss a chapter a week. But some discussions were so long the group has only reached Chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thursday School | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...free love--late and irregular hours--overwhelming conceit; all are closely associated with the average jazz musician by the general public. However, we who have known Charley Vinal can certainly point with pride to a man who was not only a credit to his profession but also an outstanding example of clean-living American youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

...Caldwell example: a U.S. manufacturer, with "unutterable conceit," ran a picture of his plane over the headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: How to Lose Customers | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...those who have interest in Mr. Santayana the last letter I received from him [was] dated Dec. 4, 1941. "The longer I live," he wrote, "the more I lean on nature at large and the less on the conceit of human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Heroine and Marling daughter, Lettice Watson, is the widow of a naval officer killed at Dunkirk. Lettice lives in the Marling stables, which are fitted up with electricity, a drawing room, nurseries. She is courted by three youths: a poet, covered with long hair and conceit; an R.A.F. officer; an Army captain. This wooing is all the plot there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Far from the Madding Fight | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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