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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The child's soul, says Dottoressa Montessori, develops through a series of "sensitive periods"-times when it has a preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Childhood Secrets | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

As an orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Believing that 50% of young people are intellectually unprepared for marriage, 20% financially unready, Father Roy put his Jocist candidates through exhaustive preparation, weeded them from 400 to 105 couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jocists to Altar | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

The Call had reprinted the cartoon from the London Daily Herald, for whom it was drawn by Australian-born William Henry Dyson. Will Dyson had been fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prophecy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

"Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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