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...clothes made of pink and lavender nylon, even the latest rockets cannot penetrate Heaven, and the Devil is full of uranium. These are some of the up-to-the-minute theories of small-fry theology turned up in a survey of sixto ten-year-olds conducted by Professor Theophil Thun, 59, of the Padogogische Akademie (Teachers College) in Paderborn, Germany. Professor Thun was less interested in theology than in charting the juvenile sense of sin, and his findings indicate that at six as well as at 60, sin often seems whatever is most fun-such as "scuffling and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin for Six-Year-Olds | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...writing a novel! I'm typing the darn thing for the third time. Someone told me to leave out the sex, so that I did. Another told me to remove the religion, so I did that, too. Now all that is left is love and the Lake of Thun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Alpine circuit was a dangerous 352-mi. triangle crossing a 3,000-ft. range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...economics: Donald M. Kubel, of Bar Keley, California, economics; Carl E. Thomas, of Belmont, economics; Richard R. Goodwin, of Brockline, biology Branford P. Millar, of Warsaw, New York, English; Kenneth P. Miller, of Columbus, Ohio, English; Meyer R. Abrams of Long Branch, New Jerees. English; Basis W. Kchler, of Thun, communication engineering; Demorested of Newport. Rhode Island Biology and Olot H. Pearson, of Destenter biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LERNER GRANTED LEAVE, UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

...legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers and let her beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Napoleon No. 3 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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