Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright summer morning in Guns-bach when he was 21, Schweitzer awoke and calmly came to a momentous decision: "I would consider myself justified in living until I was 30 for science and art, in order to devote myself from that time forward to the direct service of humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found...
...went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman of the U.S. Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, came a persuader that set Dr. Schweitzer to brooding. The foundation would make the Lambarene hospital a gift of 2,000,000 francs ($6,100), Chairman Hutchins promised, if Dr. Schweitzer would come...
...educators had only been toying with the idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...studio (31 stages and 3,700 employees), and the only one to have run so long with regular dividends and without merger, bankruptcy or reorganization. For the anniversary year, no special day has been set for a celebration. But last week M-G-M executives kept a date that came close enough for the milestone: they trooped to a birthday luncheon for 64-year-old L. B. Mayer...