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...believe that a shudder would go through the sky if our whole ant heap were kerosened. But then, it might-in short, my only belief is that I know nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Last week Death, as it must even to magicians, came to Aleister Crowley. The world of 1947 buried him almost without noticing it, and without a shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rascal's Regress | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...achieved the dubious honor of first underrating Donelli. He told the 155 pound kid from the mill town of Bridgeville. Pennsylvania that he was too small to play football. Buff got a laugh out of recalling the incident in his Newbury street office this week but Pitt grads still shudder when they think of all the football talent that was chased over to their intracity rivals at Duquesne University. The shudders turn into positive symptoms of delerium tremens when they recall the two tremendous upsets that Donelli-coached Duquesne pulled on the then potent Panthers...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

...instant, the plane was virtually stationary. We could feel it shudder as the engines clawed at the wall of rain and wind. Then it began to skid sidewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: The Hole in the Doughnut | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Membership. Church membership figures have always been computed in a way that would make a certified public accountant shudder: different denominations keep their records in different ways, and few churches agree on just who should be counted a church member. Listing only those 13 years or older, the overall muni ber of church members (Protestant, Catholic and Jewish) dropped in the decade between 1930 and 1940 from 534 per 1,000 of population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sorry Figures | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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