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Word: saviors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME comes to me each week as a sort of savior-helps me to keep myself well-informed as to current events, assists me much in maintaining a correct mental balance. When I read such an admirable bit of writing as "Walking Dean" (TIME, May 3), I feel like telling the writer of it I've received my subscription price back again. That's what I'm doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Union City production would have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator in the Zion Administration Building. However, Zionites like their show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Illinois Oberammergau | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Townsend Test | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Much less enthusiastic about Batistism was President GÓmez who said bluntly, "The bill is antidemocratic, invades the scope of the civil authority, and tends to militarize childhood. I shall veto it." This made "The Savior" so angry that even when the National Sugar Mill Owners Association offered to pay the tax without any legislation, he waved their offer a.side, spluttered, "The bill must become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batistism | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Before the House of Representatives the bill duly came, was passed in toto, by 106-to-43.* Cock-a-hoop with success, "The Savior" strutted about Havana declaring: "We have a two-thirds majority. We can pass the bill over the President's veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batistism | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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