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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"He is bringing out into the open forces in the world which would eat up the marrow of our life if we were not forced to see their effects in outward conflict. . . . Whatever men may do at least God is answering the prayer:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week this theory got a bucket of cold water thrown right in its face. In the New England Journal of Medicine, hard-headed Psychiatrists Robert Edward Fleming and Kenneth James Tillotson denied that there is any such thing as an "alcoholic personality." Anyone, they said, "can become an alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Normal Drunks | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mr. for Rev. | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

"God is breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

>If the U. S. enters the war, Catholics should "give serious thought to the question of whether or not they should be conscientious objectors." So said Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque, who helped Father Coughlin in his unsuccessful keep-the-embargo fight.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pacific Ifs | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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