Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the outbreak of the war, President Conant publicly added political to his academic dislike of Germany. In a chapel talk on September 26, 1939, he said that a peace based on bitterness and hate would be the "final disaster" of civilization, but urged Americans to "recall their minds to the tasks at home...
...Chapel Hill, on the comely campus of University of North Carolina, dashing young South American caballeros last week politely lifted their hats to passing coeds and saluted them with the words: "Let's pitch a little woo." The coeds responded: "Hey" (North Carolinian for Hello). All in fun, the South Americans were busy practicing the promotion of hemisphere solidarity...
Lodged in the university-operated Carolina Inn, the visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another...
...famed old Manhattan parish gave up its own life last week to make its $1,500,000 endowments available to the East Side chapel it founded 55 years ago. It was the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation on once-fashionable Murray Hill, among whose communicants is Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother...
...public ice skating in winter, will help keep the church cool in summer. On this level the east and west wings contain an auditorium seating 500, reception room, kitchen, Bible School classrooms. The upper levels of the brick and Indiana limestone structure contain the light, airy church, a chapel, offices, schoolrooms, two baptistries...