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Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Credo | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Ghastly visions of plants that eat flesh have troubled the dreams of many imaginative men. In William Randolph Hearst's American Weekly a romancer named Dr. Carle Liche once described what he saw one frightful tree do to a native girl in Madagascar. ". . . Then while her awful screams . . . rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pitfalls and Lobster Pots | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Bites Animal | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Slumberous and soporific as the drone of a bumble bee is the atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Herzogin von Windsor | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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