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Schools, As taxpayers, contributing money to State and local school systems, many Catholics believe that they should get aid for their parochial schools. Many Protestants, however, hold that if Catholics do not choose to put their children in public schools, that is their lookout. In Ohio, where State aid for parochial schools has been fought in the Legislature for five years, religious bitterness has hampered the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tensions | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...anything about that. It was his lookout; it was his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Certainly Not | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Napoleonic times, master of H.M.S. Lydia, who pitted his 36-gun frigate against ships twice as strong. Last fortnight, when he continued Captain Hornblower's story in Ship of the Line, it seemed likely that more readers would hear of Author Forester, and keep a lookout for him hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neat Adventure | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Psychiatrists at Chicago's Institute of Juvenile Research watched Frank Balek's performance, offered no explanation. When his eyes were tested, no visual defect was found to account for his peculiarity. Today Frank's principal, William R. Bowlin, is on the lookout for signs of inverted sight in other pupils to catch slight tendencies in that direction that can be corrected. He stands behind a child, calls him unexpectedly. If the child turns his head to the left rather than to the right to see the principal, it is considered a sign of inversionist tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Upside Down Writer | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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