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...Higher Critics are wrong in alleging that the Bible is based on oral tradition current in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries B.C. Sir Charles's discoveries show that alphabetical writings in archaic Hebrew, some paralleling Biblical passages, were set down in 1400 B.C., in the time of Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Antiquarian on Jericho | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...attempt at correction of a statement in a recent number of your magazine, I find that I was wrong on one point. In looking up the authority I had quoted, I find that while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...health. Around him last week swirled the same charges of suppression which were piled on Chicago's Health President Bundesen after he made his long-delayed announcement of the amebic dysentery epidemic last autumn. It seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then allowed them to be put on sale, even though it has been demonstrated that a parrot may carry the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parrots in Pittsburgh | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Furthermore, only history will prove who is right and who wrong, President Roosevelt or Senator Glass; but if Ancel Baird would like to make a little bet of $1,000, TIME to hold the money and decide, the money to go to any worthy charity, I will take the same side as Senator Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Great was banned in Germany because its star, Elizabeth Bergner, is a Jew. Last week German censors banned Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs (Das Hohe Lied) on the ground that she was portraying an immoral character. In Vienna censors banned Mae West in She Done Him Wrong. Reason: "Nothing but uncouth and clumsy eroticism, appealing to the basest instincts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bannings | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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