Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Light Began." In 1939, Knox was assigned by his archbishop to translate the Bible. He retired to a friend's house in the country and set to work on a lonely, eight-hour-day, six-day-a-week schedule. In three years he had completed the New Testament and went right to work on the Old-turning out an average 24 verses a day, though sometimes he struggled all morning to get a verse just the way he wanted...
...occasion, the 72-year-old hero of the day, snow-thatched Hiram Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
...ungirdled appetite made him as fat as St. Thomas Aquinas. He enjoyed telling of the time he weighed himself on scales which, instead of registering the weight, announced it vocally. When the archbishop got on, the scales cried: "One at a time, please...
...Best." The Christian Century's candid, peppery Charles Clayton Morrison observed: "If he had lived, Archbishop Temple would have been undisputed head of the World Council, which now has six co-presidents. You see, it takes six of the best men to equal one Archbishop Temple...
...England not through compromise or worldly wisdom but because his abilities simply could not be ignored. Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...