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Word: faithful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution cannot be had. The prosperity of certain institutions along Massachusetts Avenue shows that reviews can be made so effective and valuable that men will pay large amounts of money to get them. True enough last years half-cocked attempts came nowhere near the professional standards, but there is faith in many that time and experience could bring the College's teachers to the same level as their rivals. Conceivably the Union Committee might not have been disheartened by past ill luck but aroused to greater efforts to fill the gap they knew exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWS REVIEWED | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

...LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters v. Satan | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...come in just then but who slid to Jesus on his bass notes. He used to circulate queasy looking gents through the oddie who'd tap you when you were just going good, say, on "Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side of his mouth without missing a bar of the hymn. The guy beat it, too. So I never was saved. But if it ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...that no marriage will happen. "I cannot yet speak," said Countess Johanna von Mikes, "but, officially, nothing has happened." The family of the Countess face-savingly announced that she could not marry King Zog because, as a good Catholic, she could not possibly join His Majesty in the Mohammedan faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Fatima--or Else! | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Thus did Publisher Julius David Stern give texts for a sermon about "a $100,000 blowout for the cream of U. S. society . . . with all the gloss and gaiety of the careless, incredible, forgotten days before the Crash," and James Harvey Gravell's "way of showing his faith in the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Worlds | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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