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Word: frankses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paganism, streamlined and arrogant, has reconquered more of Europe than it has held for a thousand years. Yet even among Christians, few people think of World War II as a religious war-Europe's greatest since the Franks beat back the Saracens at Tours. This oversight and the pagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Converting 1% of the Chinese in 100 years is not in itself a cheering statistic for the missionaries, but the time may be riper than they realize for a far broader acceptance of their faith. China is today the only great non-Christian State with a Christian head. The conversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in China | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Empty Cradle | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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