Search Details

Word: tilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Most Protestants, uncommitted to Mary's perpetual virginity, see no reason not to accept Jesus' brothers as real brothers. They point to the Douay version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesus & His Brethren | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Lewis informed the three Sitwells, "I'm thirty-seven till I pass the word round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tongue That Naked Goes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating. But he pleased the management enormously by quaffing the house champagne instead of the supply shipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...crippling. Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength -in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is It? | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...sixth, but I actually have only four." When a newsman asked about Krider's claim of 51% of Ward proxies, Wolfson scoffed, "Krider knew he was telling nothing but a big fat lie." Yet Wolfson started conditioning his followers for possible defeat by hauling out a wait-till-next-year

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wolfson Takes a Round | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 532 | 533 | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | Next