Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Masters. One day, years later, his spiritual superiors asked Pére Couturier what he thought of the present art in churches. His answer came with surprising vehemence. "Our church art is in complete decay," he burst out. "It is dead, dusty, academic-imitations of imitations . . . with no power to speak to modern...
...French birth rate used to be taken as evidence of race suicide and moral decay; it is now higher than at any time since records were first kept in the 18th Century. On the eve of World War II the rate was 14.6 per 1,000 population. It has risen to 19.6. Reported Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly...
...thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
Sets rayless-joyless-quenched in cold decay...
Last fall, a field man reported to President Melvin that several dentists in his territory were excited over ammoniated dentifrices. Researchers at the University of Illinois and at Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital, testing the use of urea and dibasic ammonium phosphate to kill bacteria associated with tooth decay, had reported promising results...