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...doing. Since they still deserve sympathy, if not blessings, and in order not to jeopardize their future efforts, I list them only as follows: producer: Dw-ght D--re W-m-n; songs: J-m-s Sh-lt-n, L-n-rd B-rnst-n, L-ngst-n H-gh-s, M--r-ce V-l-ney; sketches: N-ney H-m-lt-n, S-m--l T-yl-r, W-lly C-x; settings: J-M--lz-n-r; cast: J--n McCr...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Ghoti Today | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Some 700 filling stations throughout Germany now supply liquid methane to some 100,000 cars. Because methane is h'gh in antiknock value, special high-compression engines which save 15% in fuel consumption are now available for this fuel. Even diesel engines can be converted to methane, although when this is done they still must be started with regular diesel fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ersatz Ersatz | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Thus writes Henri Ghéon, pious French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cure d'Ars | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Writes Hagiographer Ghéon: "The Devil had managed to slide into his conscience the monstrous sophism that a priest of the Church can obey God while disobeying the Church; it was the one vulnerable spot-and the devil put his finger on it." M. Vianney cheated his old enemy, however, and remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cure d'Ars | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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