Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will hurl atomic bullets at energies up to 200,000,000 volts. Atom-smashing, once the purest of pure sciences, is already edging toward practicability, especially in cancer therapy and other biological research (TIME, July 10). A 2,000-ton machine, manufacturing radioactive chemicals in large quantities, might even turn atom-smashing industrial...
...horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist Bohrod's serio-comic detail tips the scale toward optimism...
...dollar. Third in circulation this year was Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.'s Country Home, with 1,648,000 readers. (First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
...Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...
...said, but how He said it, from texts in Aramaic-the language which many believe that Jesus spoke, and which Père Jousse believes is admirably fitted for eloquent gesturing. To other Jesuits, his theories smelled of heresy. But Père Jousse argued himself out of trouble, even convinced the late Pope Pius XI, in a personal interview whose words and gestures were not reported, that he was fundamentally orthodox...