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...first place, he is unjust to the two men who give the course in an excellent and scholarly fashion without any undue obeisance to the hallowed anachronisms which characterized early Christian institutions, to say nothing of its latter day successors. Institutional religion (which, I fear me, Cuthbert confuses with Religion) has been subject to trial and error and the absurd circumlocutions of the early church fathers justly merit amusement for their logic as well as veneration for their audacity. I suggest that if liberality of approach be too much for Cuthbert he might strike his tents from the pleasances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or Try Dayton, Tennessee | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...rathering" was his denunciation by name, as uninformed medically and unjust ethically, of Magazine Critics T. Swann Harding, F. C. Kelly, H. L. Mencken, the late J. A. Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...spite of the qualifying adjective, "crazy." I am afraid most readers would make a generic application of the sentence. This would be unjust both to Southern whites and to the millions of self-respecting, law abiding, industrious Negroes who comprise the major portion of our colored population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...quotation, often unjust, cannot do Willa Cather justice. Her manner of writing has little in common with her noisy day. Characterized by an English critic as "that rara avis, an autochthonous American author," she is most conveniently classified by negatives. Says the same critic: "The King Charles's head of psychoanalysis and experiment in genre does not keep continually turning up in her books as they do [sic] in those rather Mr. Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...ball is unjust and unfair because it widens the gap between the expert and the dub. It may prevent a great player from turning your toughest course in a casual 66, but it will prevent many thousands of others-who make the game, make the galleries and love the fun-from turning in that joyous 89 that means so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ball Crusade | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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