Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born at Randolph, Tenn. on July 28, 1893, the son of a timber contractor. His mother died when he was young, and he spent most of his early years on his grandfather's farm in western Tennessee. Educated at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. (B.A. 1918). Served overseas in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman. After studying in Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University in 1921, later got his first D.D. (honoris causa) at Hendrix...
Some interstellar space men have a more ingenious answer than this Noah's Ark method. If a space ship moves at nearly the speed of light, its time slows down. It can sail like a cosmic ray for thousands of earth-years from star to star, but for its crew only weeks will pass. When they return to earth, however, they will all be Rip Van Winkles: their friends and families will long since have passed into ancient history...
...Gathings (D. Ark.), chairman of the committee: Pocket-sized books have become "artful appeals to sensuality, immortality, filth, perversion, and degeneracy...
...Searcy, Ark...
...pamphlet urges: "Don't let them lynch our citizens; Don't let them rock the ark of prosperity." It calls Stevenson and Sparkman "friends of Negroes, Jews, Catholics, and Protestants...