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...correspond with historical events, and were thus used for prophecies. World War I, the Depression and World War II have been recognized on this scale and passed; dead ahead has loomed the most portentous date of all-the date upon which the pyramid's main passage runs smack into a blank wall. On that date, the British Israelites predicted, would come "the final collapse of aggressive military systems" and the begining of the "cleansing of the earth and humanity as God's sanctuary." C (for cleansing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: C-Day at the Pyramid | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...five-to 50-dollar gold pieces. Easy-laughing, they are honest, independent and, as the bulging-eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself and thus make the girl the victim of his covetous evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bali Ha'i-By-the-River | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...know the United States very well, and after reading Clement Attlee's speech in full, I'm damned if he didn't hit the nail right smack on the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler decided to broaden Munich's Sonnenstrasse as a parade ground for his brown-shirted heroes. Smack in the center of the avenue was the Lutherans' 106-year-old St. Matthew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modern St. Matthew's | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...pitch came up to the plate waisthigh. The Yankees' young (21) Outfielder Mickey Mantle swung smoothly, put the full weight of his well-muscled (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) body behind the blow. The smack of ball on bat echoed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Historic Homer | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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