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...board wrote a firm review: "In this country where we enjoy the priceless heritage of religious freedom, the law recognizes that men and women of all faiths respect the religious beliefs held by others. The mockery or profaning of these beliefs that are sacred to any portion of our citizenship is abhorrent to the laws of this great state. . . This picture takes the concept so sacred to them. . . and associates it with drunkenness, seduction, mockery and lewdness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By Order of the Board | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

That knowledge is little more than the hazy likeness of a criminal on a weather-beaten billboard, but it is a priceless clue to those already tracking the killer's path from patient to patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Criminal's Track | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Under unswerving leadership, Harvard has made an outstanding contribution to the priceless heritage of a proud nation. Bolstered by the courage and determination of an outstanding faculty and the respect of a free people, the University cannot afford to turn its ivied walls into an ivory tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Decision | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

...Mencken wrote like a reckless revolutionary, but he was Tory to the core. His home life was as innocent as the average minister's, but he flayed the ministers, and the Bohemians claimed him as their own. In the 1920s, a word of praise from Mencken became a priceless treasure. When, as a joke, he suggested various politicians for the presidency, minor booms resulted. When he said some kind words about Henry Ford, they were quoted in the full-page ads that blared the arrival of the model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Remember You By | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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