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Word: existant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Established by Pope Pius XI to combat "the great modern heresy of laicism [which] refuses to recognize the rights of God and His Christ over persons and peoples and organizes the lives of individuals, families and society itself, as though God did not exist. This laicism ruins society. ... It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes and rivalry between nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Museum's excellent collection has several gaping blanks. "A motion picture cannot be bought in the same way you might buy a book, or a pair of shoes," the catalogue explains. "Whoever holds the original rights to a film retains the legal control of whatever prints may exist." Students must therefore look elsewhere if they want to study several old movies that are high points in U.S. film history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Blanks | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...dwarf who is determined not to lose an inch of his stature"), his always unexpected views ("It gives one somewhat the desire to be buried," he remarked on seeing the tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo), his dogmatic epigrams ("The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist") won him a drawing-room notoriety that his face and figure could never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crystallized Romantic | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Although solutions to the problem exist, only a prompt investigation by the Student Council will succeed in galvanizing University officials into immediate action. There is no doubt that pedestrians and drivers alike stand to benefit from any effective device for luring automobiles from the streets of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Park Your Car-cass | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parable of Temptation | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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