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...bond I swear-Stalin: O, swear not by perfidious Albion

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Balcony Scene | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Biffle got things started all right with the chaplain's prayer. Sixty holdover Senators were in their seats; 36 newly elected Senators waited to be sworn. The reading clerk read the rules, reminding the Chamber that it was the custom to swear in new members alphabetically, in groups of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: That Man | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...find myself in the midst of exaggeration and falsity. I am unable to discover the truth. Truth and nonviolence, by which I swear and which have sustained me for 60 years, seem to fail to show the attributes I have ascribed to them. ... I see no light through the impenetrable darkness. I find that my theories of nonviolence do not answer in the matter of Hindu-Moslem relations. I have come here to discover a new technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Walk Alone | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Such an all-around background has given him a balanced view even of Basic English. He laughs off the nation that he wants to force anyone, including himself, to speak only Basic. "It's too dull!" he exclaims. "You can't swear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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