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...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Everyday Dogma | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...smouldering fire, which started in soap used for washing machines and spread to the rubbish brought six fire trucks and 30 students to Clark's Sea Grille on Holyoke Street, at 2 a.m. this morning before it was extinguished. The grille opened for business last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE HITS GRILLE | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Major Advocate, whose face has been lifted nearly half a dozen times in the last three years, has finally undergone a real clean-up job. The current issue exhibits more variety, more imagination in planning, and less rubbish than any in recent seasons...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

University Professor I. A. Richards, who conducts Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Tutoring Firm Head Writes New Review Book | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

...rubbish heap between the Business School and River at blazed for half an hour beginning at 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Boston firemen, who employed five pieces of equipment in quelling the flames, said that the fire "was probably set on purpose." There was no property damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Flares at B.S. | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

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