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Word: questionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live on earth, establish a Church, instruct His disciples to "go forth and teach all nations" if He did not at the same time give them Truth to teach. If any church has that truth and can prove it, as can the Catholic Church, then it is not a question of whether or not the individual can or cannot believe it; for the truth never changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...this mean the U.E. was pulling out of the C.I.O.?-a reporter asked. "Like President Roosevelt, I'd have to say that was an iffy question," said Fitzgerald. But later he talked more clearly: "If the C.I.O. doesn't want to meet our demands," he snorted, "it can go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grounds for Divorce | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great struggle between Communism and the West? How would it weigh in the balance of war or peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Other Bomb | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question is 'no,' it is not necessary to fill up the rest of this form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: The War of the Worlds | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Michel: I am a simple functionary. I follow my orders and do not question my superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Twenty-Seven in July | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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