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Many a Catholic, says Father McCaffrey, is ignorant as to the church's teaching on the sacrament of Penance, which requires genuine sorrow rooted in an "intellectual appreciation" of sin and a firm purpose of amendment as well as simple confession. Many a non-Catholic misunderstands Penance, too; Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church & Jail | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

The Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/20/1932 | See Source »

Any fair comment on Biology A must begin by admitting that it has purged itself of its onetime fullness and that its faults are now those of conception and not of execution, being duplicated in almost all the other elementary science courses. Using Biology A as one of several possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIOLOGY A | 12/3/1932 | See Source »

In addition to the above-mentioned charge, Dubois was also accused of treating his superior officer with contempt. The charge drawn up in the official document read as follows: "In that Eugene DuBois, now a junior grade Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, while so serving on board the U.S.S. Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval Science Department Conducts Mock Trial For DuBois, Accused of Contempt and Sinking Schooner "Wigglesworth" | 12/3/1932 | See Source »

Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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