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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search is Jesus the human being, and in no sense the Christ of religious and theological controversy, which somewhat scornfully "he does not pretend to understand." From the confusion of scholars' profusion of detail, Ludwig recreates the world Jesus lived in: the peaceful hillside where he loved to lie and dream his poet dreams, the bustling village on market day, the simple carpenter and fisherfolk, and finally, in glamorous contrast, Jerusalem, loud with the pompous clankings of Roman centurions, the sophistries of Pharisee and Sadducee, the sharp bickerings of tradesmen in the temple court. Instinctively avoiding the fierce challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Was It Failure? | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Coolidge Special got up steam. Behind it, when it started, would lie a Capital devoid of newsful Governmental activity save for the Federal Trade Commission's lively but long-drawn investigation of the Power Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Collins showed a tendency to shout, "We know that already!" and "Don't lie to us!" whenever Miss Savage answered his questions. After some hours of this tea was served. Ensuing dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Damnable Shame! | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Explanation may lie in the fact that Tsarist landlords underfed their peasants and sold abroad what the hungry would have liked to eat. Today, with the peasant master of his Fate and Farm, rural tummies are full to bursting, and urban workers are experiencing a slight vacancy under the belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Alarm at Tummies | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...spring, when he is either correcting final theses, preparing groups of Seniors for divisional, or working on the study card conferences of Sophomores and Juniors. Two fifteen-minute conferences separated by and interval of six months give negligible returns in mutual acquaintance. The solution, then, seems to lie in an increase of advisory conferences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY ADVISER | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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