Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency...
Your Wings was published in January 1937. Before long, flying schools began to recommend it to students. Airlines, instrument companies, even CCC camps bought it. Tennessee, where flying courses are provided in State-run air schools, made it a textbook. Your Wings got its mightiest circulation zoom last spring, when the Soviet Government cornered the Russian rights and distributed 100,000 copies...
...cold weather became too much for Foster May and he ducked into a small, lighted shack to warm up. Inside, another man was toasting himself. The man recognized May, they chatted briefly, and then May left to join the chase. Outside an idea suggested itself. Back went May and began asking pointed questions. The man stirred himself wearily...
...began an investigation of the Coster-Musica scandal (TIME, Jan. 9), a perversion of Mother Goose went the rounds of Wall Street...
...Uptown at the Rehn Galleries was a show of large, firmly painted water colors by Charles Burchfield, in which that famous first of the "U. S. Scene" artists proved his widening scope. When Burchfield began to paint in upstate New York, he loved and satirized the blackening monuments of "General Grant Gothic" architecture in U. S. houses and streets. In his later work, satire is supplanted by more profound emotion. Most dramatic if not the finest example: December Twilight: a cold, desolate village against a furnace slit of sunset...