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...practice, lately initiated in the official Catholic press in this country, of vilifying, in a most unworthy way, the Protestant Reformation and its great leaders, particularly Martin Luther and John Calvin. I plead with the distinguished scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in America that they frown upon every journalistic attempt to distort historical truth for ecclesiastical ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Clericalism & Vilification | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp.) The woman walked on. "This man I recognize." (It was Fritz Klein, Belsen's doctor.) She moved on down the line of defendants, picking out a dozen others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inferno on Trial | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...much static, too busy, very sorry, apologies to Orator Churchill and Canoneer Carter, a frown at the Associated Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...three have settled anything You'd as well smile as frown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New England Questions | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Most Swedes would frown on the idea of declaring war on Germany now. But it would be no breach in the nation's 130-year record of neutrality if, after military operations are terminated, Sweden's army should undertake some police operations -such as clearing Norway of the remaining German divisions, which will then be classed as bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Thaw | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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