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...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Believe . . . | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Dodgers, whose loud Lippy Leo Durocher threatened to jettison his ancient outfield-Walker, Galan and Rosen -and gamble on three rambunctious rookies named Carl Furill, Gene Hermanski and Dick Whitman. With Mickey Owen in Mexico, he would depend on Rookie Ferrell Anderson behind the plate. The Dodgers were pointing mainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Yanks & the Cards | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Because the Zaibatsu exercise such control over Japan's economy and would cheerfully jettison the militarists, the dangerous tendency, Roth believes, is for the U.S. to leave Japan's private affairs largely to them. By doing so the U.S. would certainly "maintain unchanged the internal conditions that were basically responsible for launching Japan on her campaign of conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down with Grew & Hirohito | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Britain had staked out a formal claim to interest in the affairs of Yugoslavia. She still recognized King Peter. But the Yugoslavs seemed about ready to jettison their King. In Belgrade the Government was dominated by Marshal Tito, a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Historic Force | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...General Frederick W. Castle, who continued combat flying even after he got his star, was piloting a Flying Fortress on a mission over Belgium when seven Messerschmitts attacked. Bullets ignited an oxygen tank, which threatened to explode the Fortress' bomb load. Lean, young (36) General Castle refused to jettison the load, because U.S. troops were underneath. With two engines afire, he leveled out, and stayed at the controls while his crew bailed out. He was still in the plane when a fuel tank exploded, sent plane and pilot to the ground in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In One Week | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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