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...evil like cancer exist if all that God created was good?" challenged a heckler. "Cancer is not an evil," retorted Roman Catholic Father David I. Dorsch of Baltimore. "Sin alone is evil, because sin alone keeps man from his final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heckled Priests | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROCUREMENT: Unpardonable Gun | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Michigan, a vote against godly Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81, Republican, was by implication a vote for sin. Nevertheless, Michiganders sided against the angels, voted in up-&-coming Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, who had quietly built himself a steam roller to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES: Governors | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Germany does not dictate all the decrees of Vichy directly. But the peace of France will not be written until warfare ceases, and Vichy commits the pardonable sin of wishing to please the conqueror so that the peace will be gentle. Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Accents of the Conqueror | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Harvard's yell-coaxers committed a serious sin against the First Commandment of pious and right-living cheer leaders. The boys simply weren't together. Counterpoint is fine in a Beethoven concerto, and uneven entrance and exit of voices the distinguishing characteristic of a Bach fugue. But the well-ordered cheer is strict harmony; and the cheering section will never be harmonious until the leaders all move the same way at the same time. Individualism has no place in cheer-leading--it has to be done as Hitler would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEERING BY THE CHARLES | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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