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...spiritual development of the Russian people as a people and as represented by their great and spiritual literature. Proceeding on the theory that the way to shut out the darkness is to turn on the light, I believe that such an undertaking would do much to fan to flame in the hearts of the true Russian people the Christian spark which once ignited can never be permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Pools of Flame. Eastern's DC-4 had gone down in a woodland between the village of Port Deposit on the Susquehanna River and Perryville on the Pennsylvania Railroad; within a few minutes, automobiles from nearby towns and farms were headed for the spot. Fire equipment and naval enlisted men from nearby Bainbridge Naval Training Station soon joined them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smoke in Maryland | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire on a rainy day. Very difficult; the wood is sodden and you are down on your knees in the wet, blowing from above and from below. Suddenly the white flame blazes up and there it is. If you rearranged things you might ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like Building a Campfire | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quicker Than the Ear | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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