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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...structure, it looks like a cathedral (its tower was modeled after Canterbury Cathedral's Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Duke's Design | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

This was a crucial discovery. Freud finally abandoned hypnosis, merely invited his patients to lie on a couch in his shaded office and talk of whatever entered their minds. This "free association," Freud soon discovered, was not free at all. For his patients, at first reluctantly mumbling trivialities, gradually wandered back into the past, on to forgotten paths, stumbling painfully over hidden, moss-covered memories, dabbling in streams of old affection. Through sharp observation and almost poetic analysis, Freud was able to interpret the mass of material his patients dredged up, and explain the origin of their symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...deliberate lie" was what President Roosevelt called press reports that at a secret conference with the Senate Military Affairs committee he: 1. Called Hitler the "Mad Man of Europe." 2. Admitted negotiating a naval alliance with Britain. 3. Termed the the U. S. air force "poorly manned and equipped" 4.Placed the U. S. defense frontier in France. 5. Asked for an air fleet of 12,000 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...believed the early Christian martyrs were right not to lie to save their skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Honesty Test | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Juan, P. R., Judge Robert Cooper asked an eight-year-old witness: "Do you know what an oath is? What will happen to you if you tell a lie?" The boy: "I'll get warts." The Judge: "I think he is qualified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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