Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matters relating to government. Of General Marshall, it can certainly be said that he brings to a job which requires a knowledge of economics and foreign trade a woeful lack of information. But the fact of the appointment remains--and General Marshall's tremendous popularity with the Congress assures instant Senate ratification of his appointment. With the great issues of the peace still unsettled, the people of the United States can only fervently wish him well...
...however temporary the phenomenon, it is nevertheless true that under the impetus of the war-born Bill of Rights higher education in America has for the first time become genuinely democratic. For one single, brief instant of our history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names...
...boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...
Your research regarding Joseph Smith and the "golden tablets later translated into the Book of Mormon" seems to have been very limited. Not only does Mormon history fail to corroborate your footnote [TIME, Sept. 9]-"Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through 'magic spectacles' "-but on the contrary the testimony of eleven witnesses ... is printed on one of the first few pages of every Book of Mormon published...
...Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through "magic spectacles...