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...Ploughshare pitch is the low cost of nuclear digging. If employed on a very large scale, atoms are the world's cheapest workers, and they are getting cheaper year by year. Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, scientific director of Ploughshare, believes that a sea-level canal at the Sasardi-Morti route in eastern Panama could be completed, ready for use, for $500 million, using only 170 megatons of explosive. This is hardly more than the present Panama Canal cost when it was completed 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Ploughshare Canals | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tale of a Pig | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone and gloom-benighted, beleaguering in the darkness of his mind the fortress of eternal knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Intolerance | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...frugales, in silvis incognitis cum domus suas et acdem ad Deum colendum acdificavissent, meditari coeperunt quo modo pueros sibi eradirent. Quibus collegium condere volentibus; vir quidam liberalis, sapientiae studiosus Johannes Harvard, sui oblitus dono munifico effecit ut schola valeret floreretque. Hoc in faciendo vitam suam brevem ipsam et morti immatura fractam gloria immortali ornavit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LATIN ORATION | 10/6/1909 | See Source »

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