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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father: From a Historical point of view, we may speak after the manner of men - as Spirit without a BODY, when the Spirit moved out on the Face of the deep, according to the Bible. Professor: When was that? Father: According to Bible History - Four Thousand and Four Years. B. J. better known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Babble | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Last week appeared the first complete, authoritative medical textbook on how to produce and prevent abortions.* Forty-six centuries ago a Chinese emperor wrote down the first medical prescription for bringing about abortions. A thousand years later an Egyptian described on papyrus the tools necessary for the surgical production of abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortions | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...argues the apologists of Weakness, would have made him madder and more maniacal than ever. Yes, but how dangerous is a madman if you have a gun to shoot him with when he gets funny? As for relative strength, look what Great Britain did to India with a few thousand soldiers, and who has heard of the Boers in all these years, though their hate at first after defeat must have been as great even as that of a Frenchman for a German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...truly, after the next war, let the winner take over the beaten country and keep it down. If popular opinion gets strong, and riots start, shoot down a couple of thousand of the natives. If that makes the riots even fiercer, shoot down thousands more. Sooner or later they'll get used to subservience, and then wars with that particular country, whether it be Great Britain, France, Italy, or Germany again, will be no more. SATAN

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...over thirty thousand rentals last year, exactly two collisions took place. Neither had results more serious than a shakeup. Putting this rule into effect would be like enforcing the old 18 mile an hour speed limit for sutos: modern conditions make it ridiculus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Gun Apted Slaps Down on Bicyclists as 8-Year-Old Lowell-Flattener Rule Is Revived | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

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