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...keep the actress from talking to his wife, he kills her-which doesn't help his good name any, when he is found out. The Vise describes this resolution as "the inexorable qualities of fate as it closes in on men and women when they attempt to tamper with destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...movement and immigration have increased, we still take pride in the fact that a man can say civis Britannicus sum whatever his color may be, and we take pride in the fact that he wants and can come to the mother country . . . That is not something we wish to tamper with lightly." That said, Hopkinson admitted the government is indeed considering some form of limitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Color Bar | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...idea that it is either underarmed or stripped down. Because of new rockets, each of which packs the killing power of half a dozen World War II machine guns, the designers have been able to save weight on heavy gun mounts, guns and ammunition. But Lockheed has refused to tamper either with safety gadgets or instruments, has left them all in. Says Clarence L. Johnson, chief engineer at Lockheed's California Division: "This is still a highly complex airplane. You simply don't fly around at 40,000 feet at those kinds of speeds just by throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Gee-Whizzer | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors do not tamper with her sometimes confusing finishing-school prose, and the copy desk likes to have its fun with the headlines for Evie's columns: DOES ELIZABETH STILL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: D.C. Diarist | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

However, I agree very strongly with the conclusion of your editorial: that there is room at Harvard for a religious spirit which, as long as it does not tamper with individual choice and diversity of ideas, can make a significant contribution to the life of the University. William E. W. Gowen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lots of Room for Religion | 10/21/1953 | See Source »

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