Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty years ago three drummers knelt in prayer in a bedroom in the Central House in Boscobel, Wis. They were vowed to form an organization for the Lord's work. They could not think of a name for it, though, until Insurance Man Will D. Knights opened his Bible, read from Judges how the Lord had put a sword in the hand of his mighty warrior, Gideon. Paint Salesman Sam Hill and Shoe Salesman John H. Nicholson agreed that "The Gideons" would be their name...
Last week in the Central House gathered some 200 of the 7,000 commercial travelers who pay Gideon dues ($5), raise money for Gideon's work-putting Bibles in hotels and institutions. The 40th anniversary "Gideon Roundup" was organized by Gideon Nicholson, spry at 80. Gideon Knights was there too, but feeble at 86. Gideon Hill died three years ago. In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future...
London has been divided into ten medical zones, each containing 20 first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous trucks ("mobile units"), which, manned by doctors, will cruise around stricken areas. Smaller first-aid stations are set up in public laundries, baths, and in most public buildings. Almost all stations are equipped with shower baths to "decontaminate" victims of poison...
Patients wounded near the Thames will be carried down the river on converted pleasure steamers to central zone hospitals. At zone hospitals desperate cases will receive immediate attention, but all those who can survive will be immediately examined and shipped for surgical treatment to base hospitals in safe districts some 20 miles out of London...
...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...