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...living as man and wives. Similar posses in other cities swiftly followed suit. By nightfall State and Federal police had dragged from bedroom & parlor, and jailed 50 men and women in Utah, Idaho, Arizona. It was the biggest raid on polygamists since the orthodox Mormon Church officially outlawed plural marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentalists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Today all that is changed. Suleiman is trying to get out from under the heavy-hanging title of 'god,' has dropped the plural speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Schedule in the West. At Casablanca plural invasions were planned but not precisely scheduled. The fall of Tunisia, a month earlier than had been hoped, made it possible: 1) to schedule further attacks exactly; 2) to coordinate them with the military situation in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Divided They Fall | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

What do these babies do in the plural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Let's Learn Spanish | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Japanese has no singular or plural, no gender. A noun never changes its form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Japanese in Ten Lessons | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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