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Most favored of all was the soulful thought that the best way to meet the Soviet challenge was to reform ourselves at home-had we a right to point the finger at anybody else's broadest beam, so long as there was the slightest mote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

King James: "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary's English | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $6.60 Comedian | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...John Mote Stevenson '52 of Glendale, Ohio, and Lowell House was yesterday elected captain of the varsity basketball team for the 1951-52 season. He succeeds Edward Bernard Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Elects Stevenson To Captain '51-'52 Varsity | 3/15/1951 | See Source »

...that there are no sinners [in the Senate] except the other fellow. Each man is busily engaged in trying to extract the mote from his brother's eye, and is not at all concerned about the beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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