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...axiom was]: 'Find it, adjust it AND LEAVE IT ALONE. . . .' He did not believe human intelligence could hasten or improve upon the miraculous work of the Universal mind. ... I give you this paragraph from the Old Master's great Bible of Chiropractic: " 'The real primary cause of disease is tension; the cause of tension is pressure; the cause of pressure in 95% of diseased conditions is luxated [dislocated] vertebrae. The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cosmic Chiropractor | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows better than the Chungking Government that the Russian bear has learned how to somersault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...contributor who signed his name "Angus" suggested light-weight chimes (which cost less) instead of heavy, cast bells. One who called himself "Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...some of the others, he had made private peace negotiations. Now, in the first encyclical of his reign, he grieved that "our advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Dove | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Having carcened through the Wlash Sweezy storm, Harvard's chief executive has not wasted much time in dry dock before heading again for heavy weather. President Conant has just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENPINS | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

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