Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read his words...
Unto the Least of These. This week, with faith and patience, the army still marched on. In New York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...
...statistics: all the army's work across the U.S. is carried on by 5,000 officers, 37,500 soldiers (these are the 42,500 of the Salvation Army in the U.S.), a few thousand non-army paid employees, and a handful of unpaid doctors and dentists. Around the world, preaching salvation in 102 languages, there are only some 125,000 all told in the hosts of the late General William Booth. But like Joshua's army at Jericho, they multiply their strength by sheer ubiquity. Their coffee-&-doughnuts campaign in World War I, which so impressed U.S. doughboys...
Says the commissioner: "We haven't got the opposition we once had when we were kicked around . . . and our people had to fight for the right to preach in the streets. That kind of opposition bred the courage of lions...
...earth's magnetic field like tiny compass needles. When the silt hardens into rock, the magnetic particles are "frozen" so that they cannot move. The Carnegie scientists found that even when the rock layer is folded by geological forces, the magnetic particles keep their alignment, pointing accurately around the curves of the folds. Even in layers known to be 200 million years old, the rock keeps its magnetism...