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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the earliest times, not only Jewish but pagan husbandmen tithed (gave a tenth of) their produce to their gods-by way of the priests. Since Anglo-Saxon times the Church of England has been partially supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lord's Acres | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 11-Year-Old Stallion | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Like historians, the papers tell us that, Austria has no longer a name of its own, that on April tenth the "free" plebiscite will be an inevitable Nazi victory, that Italy is dubious about Germany's friendship. When these facts are scrambled together with others, the mixture, for one thing, shows that the European situation is little different from what it was before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDES OF MARCH AGAIN | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

...spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Detroit's Rats | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Greg Jameson '37 was in the audience that saw Dick Hough break by one-tenth of a second the 2:25.4 pool record he set up against Yale last year. Dario Berizzi made a gallant losing fight of it, butterflying the entire 200-yards in an iron-man attempt to keep up with Hough's flashy pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Top Swimmers Wash Stripes Off Tiger Men in Sensational Victory | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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