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Word: oversight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop supplied initial drive for a church pension fund to take care of the clergy. This fund is still operating, and is taken for granted today. During the last war he was Chairman of the Army and Navy Commission, which dealt with the appointment and oversight of chaplains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bishop Lawrence, Famous Churchman, Is Dead at 91 | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

Paganism, streamlined and arrogant, has reconquered more of Europe than it has held for a thousand years. Yet even among Christians, few people think of World War II as a religious war-Europe's greatest since the Franks beat back the Saracens at Tours. This oversight and the pagan success has a common cause. What it is can be found out by reading Darwin, Marx, Wagner, a 420-page study of dominant ideas and intellectual climate of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries by Columbia University's Assistant Professor of History Jacques Martin Barzun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...THORNDYKE'S CRIME FILE-R. Austin Freeman - Dodd, Mead ($2 50) Reprints of The Eye of Osiris, The Mystery of Angelina Frood, Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, full-length and always good. Also included is an excellent essay on the art of the detective story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Right are Reader Leach and about a dozen others who called attention to TIME'S oversight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...inspiration and sanction for their every act. . . . What we cannot forgive is that the New Deal, finding itself unable to restore national vitality, fashioned its plan upon the thesis that America is finished, that . . . we must look increasingly to the Government for jobs, for security, and for the oversight of our private lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Iron Road | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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