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...sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation and Accepts the Supernatural." Last week Bryan demonstrated it would not falter. Henceforth matriculants will be obliged to pledge themselves as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Slice for Teachers | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...redeemed at the Treasury. He and President Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite and inflation are dangerous to handle, but there are times when an appalling necessity demands their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOODIN MONEY | 3/8/1933 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLASS OF '32 HYMN | 6/21/1932 | See Source »

...transport operators scowled last spring when they saw the upward march of passenger traffic falter and temporarily retreat. They were heartened by a 20% increase for the full year 1931. Last week they beamed when it was announced that traffic for the first quarter of 1932 was 31% up. Even the fact that Depression had nibbled away 4% of their air mail poundage failed to quench their delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Seats Fill Up | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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