Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
...best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...meaning of the Cassino Monastery Incident was 80 miles north in Rome. Must the Allies bomb St. Peter's into rubble and then fight their way, chapel by chapel, through the Vatican...
Legally the Cathedral Church of St. Michael will belong to the Church of England. But, as "The People's Cathedral," it will belong to everyone. It will have a communal center (for meetings, discussions) open to all people, a Chapel of Unity to be used by both Anglicans and Non-Conformists. Bishop Gorton hopes that this new interdenominational emphasis will attract some of the 80% of Coventry's 167,000 citizens who go to no church...
...Silkeborg, Nazi military and civil headquarters for Jutland, work stopped and schools closed while 4,000 Danes shuffled silently through the hospital chapel where Martyr Munk's body had been placed. Flags were at half-mast until the Germans ordered them raised to the top again...