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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True religious experience, however, proved salutary for Dr. Jung's patient of the 400 dreams. An intelligent man, the patient believed he was irreligious, but Dr. Jung knew better. The dream of the mosquelike church (preceded and followed by equally revealing dream-imagery) demonstrated an inner approval of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Symbols & Religion | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

One day two children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

This unfortunate tendency was only too apparent in the recent batch of annual reports. Because Dr. Bock ventured to illustrate his point that the tempo of modern life is hard on the nervous system, it was instantly interpreted as a direct rebuke at Benito Mussolini for upsetting the equilibrium of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN SHOULD KNOW BETTER | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps the Vagabond was suffering from a slight attack of claustrophobia. Certainly the surroundings were enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Saint Sun's son, Mr. Sun Fo, who recently went from Hankow to Hong Kong and from there to Europe (TIME, Jan. 3), was in Moscow last week and-contrary to the general impression that Mr. Sun has been successfully negotiating Soviet aid for China - Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Both Through! | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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