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...devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientist on Immortality | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons and Polygamy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Pronounced like the plural of Gideon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gideonse's Departure | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...FIRST PERSON PLURAL-Stackpole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: High Vaudevillian | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

EZEKIEL-Elvira Garner-Holt ($1.50). An unpretentious children's book about "a lil' cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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