Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...add . . . surprising as it may seem, that I experienced at Amsterdam the opposition between 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'continental' theology at a quite different point from that which Niebuhr has raised . . . To put it quite simply, it was the different attitude to the Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according...
Everybody agreed that the two pro leagues would have to make peace or perish, but neither side was prepared for peace. Last week, in Philadelphia, officials of both leagues talked truce for twelve futile hours. The National League's unacceptable terms: add the Browns and 49ers to the ten-team National League, fold up the other six All-America teams...
...could expel or cane offenders with the same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (the Griller String Quartet; English Decca, 4 sides). The Griller players add a little unbecoming weight to "The Bird," one of Haydn's best string quartets, but it still flies gayly and engagingly. Recording: good...
...inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...