Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson, age 30, played three years of football, basketball, and baseball while in college and, in 1940, played wingback in the same backfield with All-America Tom Harmon. He has served as athletic director and head football coach at Hillsdale College, Michigan, for the last two years where his terms ran up a string of 15 consecutive victories...
...R.S.S.S. had been to make India a Hindu state, with rule based on Hindu customs and scriptures, where Moslems and other non-Hindus would be at best tolerated strangers. In recent months R.S.S.S. recruits (beginning at eight years of age) have been drilled to hate Congress leaders. One exercise was to smash pictures of Gandhi. Another: to wear pictures of Gandhi and Nehru on the inner soles of their shoes, a supreme mark of disrespect...
...help keep his printing presses busy, in 1884 was "a stately East Indiaman of a newspaper, sailing under a still almost cloudless Victorian sky." But the glass was dropping: circulation was down to a puny 48,000. The barnacle-crusted Times was hopelessly old-fashioned for an age of steam...
...next fortnight he will play in San Francisco five times. Says he: "Agents [he has none] think I am crazy. But when I go some place, I like to stay awhile. To play, pick up the check and run is silly for a man of my age...
...preserve the Christian heritage by denying every achievement of science . . . and by wrapping the essential truths of the Christian faith in obscurantism. . . . The other section of the church, usually defined as 'liberal'. . . has been pathetically eager to relate itself creatively to the achievements of a secular age-so eager, in fact, that it . . . has been inclined to sacrifice every characteristic Christian insight if only it could thereby prove itself intellectually respectable. . . . Modern man's faith in progress is at such complete variance with a history which presents him with ever more perplexing issues . . . that the faith...