Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation with about half of the known crude-oil reserves of the world and two thirds of the total production, it seems almost incredible to the layman that any shortage [of gasoline] can exist...
...Threads. From St. Peter's throne the prospect before and after stretches into centuries and millenniums. The Vatican's long-range purpose is its timeless spiritual mission. Its immediate concern is the welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...
...argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest color vision (bony fishes, reptiles and birds, monkeys, apes and man) are those with the greatest visual acuity-and those most active in the daytime...
...every Catholic individual, priest, professional man and woman, society, organization, layman, businessman, write . . . expressing indignation and demand ing that no bombing or other military plan threaten the eternal city of Rome...
This single figure, dropped last week by War Shipping Administrator Land before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was startling enough to raise up the rosy hope in many a U.S. layman that, through her immense production for war, the U.S. may easily re-establish a peacetime merchant marine which, as in the days of the clipper ships, will be second to none...