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Garbed in flowing gown, full-fashioned wig, black skullcap and white neckerchief, "Father Moody" will appear this Sunday at the meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Doleful State | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bar Bellmen | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Only treatment Mayo Clinic specialists could prescribe for Lou Gehrig was rest and special exercises. Although doctors said his grueling baseball career had nothing to do with his disease, he will never swing a bat again, nor even whip a fly rod. Said the Iron Horse last week, as he smilingly faced his enforced pasture: "I guess I have to accept the bitter with the sweet. If this is the finish, I'll take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Iron Horse to Pasture | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

With a 24-thread line, 10/0 reel and 18-oz. rod tip (much lighter tackle than is generally used), Mrs. Sears boated a 730-lb. blue marlin, a new world's record, in the Bahaman waters off Cat Cay.† It took her only one hour and 27 minutes to stop his rushes, lick him, land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Cat Cay | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...cure children of lying, help them gain selfesteem, spare the rod, be patient, tell no lies (even "white" ones). "Thoroughgoing truthfulness comes hard and it generally comes late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pointers for Parents | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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