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...Received from Pope Pius XII an answer to his Christmas appeal for parallel efforts for peace (TIME, Jan. 1). The Pope also wrote that hopes for peace were not bright, that "we are fully aware of how stubborn the obstacles are that stand in the way . . . and of the consequent slight probability of immediate success so long as the present state of the opposing forces remains essentially unchanged...
...hours), their gums began to harden, and healthy new tissue began to form the outer keratin layer, forming "a coat of armor" against bacteria. "This improvement," said Dr. Ziskin last week, "was seen not only in cases which had been partially helped by other methods, but also in the stubborn cases which showed no evidences of healing under routine procedure." In some cases, treatment was carried on over a period of two or three months...
...characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever in the days before 1929. No two correspondents could agree about President Roosevelt and the budget, the Congress, the third term. But none of them doubted that...
...wise pouches under Mr. Taylor's sad, deepset, clear-green eyes are there by no accident; his stubborn, pugnacious nose, his mailbox-slit mouth, his underslung jaw are all testimonials of the strength and judicial balance of his mind. And good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...
...European affairs was Britain's Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, but he was not the head of Government. Doubtful it was, moreover, if Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would go down as a great war figure. History would probably regard him as an example of magnificent stubbornness-stubborn for peace, then stubborn...