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...nearly extinct in Persia, but has a small, powerful constituency in the vicinity of Bombay, India. Their most highly prized virtue is purity, with which elaborate ceremonies are associated; and they look forward to a Heaven from which all filth is excluded and in which the light (Mazda) shines ever bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parsi | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts of crime and filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At Binghamton | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...have taught people to be clean, wiped out the filth plagues, the black death which killed every other person in London in 1350, and smallpox, which killed every tenth person in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer, Beware!: Cancer, Beware! | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pus-Instillers | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

Moral: Journalist, before thou seekest to cast out the mud from thy brother's hand, fling down the filth from thine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Filthy Mess | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

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