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...days later, with Boise's depot chimes echoing through the gloomy haze of a heavy snowfall, all that was mortal of William E. Borah, late a U. S. Senator, was committed to the Idaho earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Homecoming | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need of a fixed frame of reference, such as the ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ethereal Cat | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...incarnation. Though that incarnation is only limelight-deep (in private life Melchior and Flagstad are never more than polite, between eruptions of professional jealousy), operagoers are treasuring it while it lasts. For last month Diva Flagstad announced that she would retire at the end of this season. Soon this mortal pair of immortals will be offstage forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week may well have been a mortal threat to the whole structure of Anglo-Irish friendship-&-trade which has been slowly erected in the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: With American Money! | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...enters the war, if Roman Catholics are drafted, and if they are not fully certain of the justice of the war, they must conscientiously object, "under pain of mortal sin." So, in the pacifist Catholic Worker, wrote Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, Catholic University philosophy professor. Said he: "Nowadays justification for an offensive war is practically impossible-the presumption is totally against it. Only if the Holy Father, whose decision in moral matters is infallible, were to call a crusade, could we be certain that sufficient justification existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pacific Ifs | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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