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A Dreadful Hell. The author, scholarly Anglican Rector Herbert A. L. Jefferson, 60, ascribes England's lag in hymnody to the influence of Calvin, who limited congregational singing to hymns provided in the Scriptures, i.e., the Psalms. Metrical versions of the Psalms were prepared and set to popular airs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing In Church | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Seismographs the world over one day last fortnight registered an earthquake so violent that the record of its convulsions ran off the paper. Because of the incomplete recordings, seismologists were unable at first to determine the quake's location, later reckoned that it must have hit hardest in southeastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Tide of Trees & Tigers | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

To those of us sitting on the hill with General Craig, the terrible intensity of the aerial action could only indicate a fierce, personal desire of the Marine pilots to avenge the dreadful toll taken of their comrades on the ground. The pilots seemed unable to wait long enough to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE BATTLE OF NO NAME RIDGE | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

It takes nine tailors to make a man, says the old saw, and at least seven suits to make a well-dressed one, say the tailors. With clothes rationing dead for more than a year, London's Savile Row tailors last week issued a stern manifesto declaring that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One to Blow | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

The dreadful dropsy grows apace, Nor can the sufferer banish thirst, Unless the cause of the malady has first Departed from the veins.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Salt | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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