Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made me do it? Three times today I checked myself as I was about to put some objects on top of Japan's Son of Heaven (TIME June...
...respectful Japanese hope and trust-place TIME (June 6) with the front cover upward. But what shall I do next week? May I not put my most recent TIME on top of the previous issue, even if its front cover reproduces a color picture of the "Son of Heaven"? Wouldn't it be similar to putting the Bible on the U. S. flag...
...golden hair, while all the Shawns were dark?she grows stranger year by year. Shy as a mouse, she yet seems to know what people are thinking of, makes her mother feel a little weird. But for Linda her home, the farm fields and woods are a simple heaven. Only slowly do personal loves come to people...
...puts these discoveries in their proper setting. Though it does not pretend to be a complete account of a visit on which much has already been written, it will be of interest to those who know only the writings of a philosopher who was gifted of "every virtue under Heaven," and actively interested in the westward course of Empire...
...money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching to birds and fish, like San Antonio. He could do things-give the men more sheep, the boys beautiful wives, could wangle them through purgatory, into heaven. . . . At this point the sacristan, his money-box overflowing, intervened. He was the town's storekeeper, and at the rate the people were shelling out he would never collect his bills, even with San José's help, till kingdom come...