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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Jefferson had no belief in a bodily resurrection, ends his Bible: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." But he believed in his own version. He wrote of it: "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jefferson Edits the Bible | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...week reposed some 50 hard little balls, one-half inch to one inch in diameter. To a layman's eye they looked like dull, dirty grey or yellowish grey pebbles. Actually they are pearls-and, as pearls go, huge. Their value as jewels is zero, but they are precious to science. They are fossil pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Made by Inoceramus | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Among modern imitations of classicism, Prokofieff's Classical Symphony has received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...when we come to the judgment seat how shall we answer for our precious country, for the preservation of its pristine glory, for the protection of the liberties of our citizens? Shall we answer, trembling? 'We had not the courage because the power was great and overwhelming, millions upon millions on the other side and we fell before them,'-or shall we answer thus, and say? 'We stood up like brave men and fought the good fight, and with the aid of God we won it.' God bless and save America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Judgment of Johnson | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...have made decided progress but we have lost most of three precious months during which Congress wrangled and harangued over tax laws. . . . The real bottle-neck has thus been centred not in the Army, not in the Navy, not in industry, but in a certain faction of Congress itself. The delay is the fault of the very men who blame it on industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Facts without Fooling | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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