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...most exciting material dated back seven years or more_ The pamphlet contains 188 instances ot priests atrociously murdered prior to the summer of 1923, and one instance of a priest shot in Russia since then. The more recent persecutions described by Father Walsh are, however cruel and reprehensible, milder in character. He speaks ot 43 clerics "emprisoned" and of two who "died." He does not charge that any of these were killed-and this was TIME's major point: namely that the period ot savage Russian atrocities has passed. In his telegram to TIME Father Walsh admitted this fact...
Noticed by Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron of S. S. Berengaria upon approaching Manhattan last week: that the Gulf Stream was flowing nearer shore than he had ever seen it in 40 years of seafaring. Deduced by Capt. Rostron: this shift is responsible for Manhattan's milder win- ters, heavier fogs. Predicted by Capt. Rostron: if the Stream's shift continues many more years, a climate for Manhattan like Bermuda's, "palm trees on Long Island...
...many years have passed since angry Cromwellians flung toward Rome the horrid epithet "Whore of Babylon," that even English Protestants were shocked and horrified last week when the official Soviet news-organ Pravda applied to Pope Pius a much milder epithet, "Heavenly Liar...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...