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...some degree, at least?to the rest of the troubled province, "Derry is a microcosm; Derry is what the whole thing is about," says John Hume, 41, a founding member of the Catholic majority party. "What we want to show is that the boot is not on the other foot???that whatever power you've got should never be used against a minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Power in Derry | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Exodus can be too literally construed. Study shows that the Israelites apparently crossed the Sea of Reeds, a series of shallow lakes that once lay where the Suez Canal now runs. The high wind noted in Exodus could have made the lakes more easily fordable on foot???but not by the Egyptian chariots. None of that, however, really detracts from the immensity of the providential favor: in any event it helped to change permanently the way in which Jews thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIBLE:THE BELIEVERS GAIN | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

Viewed from the roof of the Casa Granda, the winter of 1923 or 1924, an endless procession, all moving to this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot???and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...deed was done and another investigation was set on foot???an investigation that well may play a major part in the coming campaign. There were numbers of Senators who would have preferred that it should not pass, but anyone who opposed it would needlessly have discredited himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smiling Bob | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Salisbury, Md., a baby girl was born with six toes on each foot??? rare, because they were all completely developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: may 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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