Word: sacrosanctity
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...population figures by religions: Hindus, believing in reincarnation, caste, polytheistic pantheism, soulforce: 239,195,140; Moslems, believing there is no god but Allah: 77,093,000; Sikhs, believing in a hodgepodge of Hindu and Moslem creeds: 4,335, 771; Christians: 6,296,763; Jains, believing all animals are sacrosanct: 1,251,000; Buddhists, believing in the escape from suffering through the "Eightfold path": 12,786,806; Parsis, believing in Ormazd, lord of light and goodness: 109,000: tribal (mainly primitive) religions...
...owns it-track, ties & rolling stock (TIME, May 18). As a result of last week's decision by a Government-appointed arbitrator, G. P. McN. will have to pay $3,200 a month more in wages, and the Government has still got his railroad. But the sacrosanct featherbed rules of the Railroad Brotherhoods-the rules which make the carriers pay for all sorts of unnecessary work-had taken a disastrous shaking...
...while the Mountbattens were visiting the U.S., beauteous Lady Louis publicly danced the Charleston with Fred Astaire. Soon afterward, London was given to understand that Queen Mary disapproved of dancing with cinema actors, and Lord Louis was blackballed from the sacrosanct Royal Yacht Squadron...
...political parties. They made a start toward a totalitarian Fascist party, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, but so many politicians got on its rolls that it never had much unity. The militarists could not get rid of the Diet because it had been set up by the sacrosanct Imperial Constitution...
...purposes. Let us work an additional ten and step up the flow of war goods 50%. Fifty hours a week will still be below the German or Japanese average. Five o'clock is too early to stop dam-building while the flood rises. The Saturday afternoon is not sacrosanct. Let us follow the Australian example by suspending public holidays. Do MacArthur's men take the weekends...