Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present time we are burdened above all by the worry that the government which is forming about us shows the tendencies which awoke resistance in National Socialist days: force which goes beyond all rights, internal deception and enmity against the Christian Evangel...
Modern Masters. One day, years later, his spiritual superiors asked Pére Couturier what he thought of the present art in churches. His answer came with surprising vehemence. "Our church art is in complete decay," he burst out. "It is dead, dusty, academic-imitations of imitations . . . with no power to speak to modern...
...village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and asked the artist to carry it out. But busy Dominican Couturier was not present at the ceremonies. He was talking to Painter Henri Matisse about the decoration of a chapel for nuns at Vence...
...protect the identity of tipsters, the Sun-Times told them to "sign" their letters with six-digit numbers and tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
...operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...