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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Childhood Secrets | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Noirs | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

A 300-voiced choir and the Georgia State Girls' Military Band burst into Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. A huge throng of Atlantans, ringing Terminal Station Plaza, cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Baptist Truett, 72, North Carolina-born, was made a preacher against his will at 19, when his church "voiced its conviction that God had called George W. Truett to the ministry," and more or less forcibly ordained him. Preacher Truett founded a high school-Georgia's Hiawassee, now a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thief's Church | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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