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Sway. When the College of Cardinals locked themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Souls, States & Helicopters | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...doer, not a talker," he snapped. "In the words of the great Lord Nelson Peru expects 'every man to do his duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Ya Ha Firmado | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record by straightaway dashes. Herewith, for comparison, are speeds for one mile made in other ways : Doer Means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 332 m. p. h. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...then they sold real estate, and now they have shifted to the buying side of merchandising and make railroads their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Doer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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