Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much that TIME has to say about the work ethic, I challenge your statement "John Calvin asserted that hard-earned material success was a sign of God's predestining grace." This judgment, though sometimes affirmed in superficial references to Calvin, is an erroneous inference from certain views of Max Weber. Weber failed to examine such passages in Calvin's writings as: "Wherever prosperity flows uninterruptedly, its effects gradually corrupt even the best of us." Here Calvin calls the view that "God manifested his favor by prosperity" quite erroneous and "a common evil" (referring to Deuteronomy...
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Alvin Pappenheimer used to live in a fine house on the Charles River. He doesn't anymore. Roger Rosenblatt lives there now, Roger Rosenbintt is a poet, and everyone knows that poets are richer than biochemists. "What do you say about that, Max?" a reporter inquired of Professor Pappenheimer. "What can you do?" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "The rent was just too high...
...hard pressed to stop the Crimson scoring combine. The balance of the Harvard offense prevents any defense from keying on a particular player and the precision passing which accounted for what Munro called four of the most perfect goals you`d ever want to see" against the Big Red max be impossible to stop...
...MAX PALEVSKY, 48, Los Angeles, founder of Scientific Data Systems, largest single stockholder in Xerox, interests in films (Marjoe) and publishing, chairman of Straight Arrow Publishers (Rolling Stone). Gifts: McGovern, $126,852; McCloskey, $9,825. Loans: McGovern...