Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many townsmen agreed. Some referred to the college as "little Bohemia." The Rev. Thomas W. Nadal, pastor of the Olivet Congregational Church, said it was in "a state of anarchy." Furthermore, gifts were dropping off and endowments were sagging. New President Ashby decided it was time for a change...
Promised Land. Not all tourists were concerned with shopping alone. The Havana weekly Bohemia added a social note...
Refreshment Table. Founding the university in 1348, Charles IV of Bohemia announced that he wanted the people of Bohemia, "incessantly hungering after the fruits of learning ... to find set out in our realm a table of refreshment." Charles was central Europe's first university, and one of the medieval world's best...
Most of the indications pointed to suicide. Some skeptics insisted it was another case of Bohemia's famed "forcible defenestration."* Whether it was suicide or murder, the fact was that Jan Masaryk had become enmeshed in exactly the kind of trap his father had warned against: he had been destroyed by trying to compromise with forces with which no man could compromise...
...Bohemia-born Rabbi Wise arrived in the U.S. in 1846 to find the country's Jews scattered and unorganized, and falling away from their ancient faith. For half a century he traveled up & down the land preaching and organizing a new, liberalized Judaism; it laid less stress on traditional forms and observances than on cutting the vital principles of the Old Testament to the democratic measure of the New World. "American Judaism" which he founded is today called "Reform," and numbers 350 U.S. congregations...