Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes compromised to gain the approval of disparate men-Italian country bishops who have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre...
...action lay a noontime meeting held at No. 23 Wall St., Home of the House of Morgan. Head of the House John Pierpont Morgan was in Europe. It was Partner Thomas W. Lament with whom conferred Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank; William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust; Albert H. Wiggin, Chase National Bank; Seward Prosser, Bankers Trust. These men controlled resources of more than $6,000,000,000. They met briefly; they issued no formal statement. But to newsmen, Mr. Lamont remarked that brokerage houses were in excellent condition, that the liquidation appeared technical rather than fundamental. He also conveyed...
...cent copies of Albert Einstein's abstruse "Coherent Field Theory" reached the U. S. last week, the man himself, his wife and a daughter plodded about Wannsee, simply hunting rooms at that lake colony twelve miles from Berlin...
...Albert Einstein's is a superb mind. In his world nothing stands still. All moves; all changes. There are no straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge...
...earplugs in my bag. Do you think I'm going to need them?" asked Diana, Princess of Wales, 22, as she and Prince Charles arrived at London's Royal Albert Hall for a gala charity rock concert featuring, among others, Drummer Charlie Watts of the ever scruffy Rolling Stones, along with Singer Steve Winwood and Guitarist Eric Clapton. Not to listen to Satisfaction, perhaps, but the svelte, silver-clad Di might have wanted to use the stoppers elsewhere. For weeks, curious Britons have been chattering about whether the Princess is pregnant again. London's tabloid Daily Mirror...