Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account shows George V not merely the force for union but the faithful servant of his people. He has endured, along with them, a quarter of a century that was the most crucial test of a nation's and a king's character. . . .
His first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them...
Since Arthur Sulzberger is handsome, able, and of eminently fine character, last week's event was practically predestined 17 years ago when Iphigene Ochs* said yes, she would marry him. He was 26 (a year older than Miss Ochs), and he wore the uniform of a second lieutenant when...
*Named Iphigenie for her mother, Iphigenia Wise Ochs, who has always been called Effie. Widow Effie is the daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism in the U. S. He once wrote a novel based on Greek mythology in which Iphigenia (''Great Princess...
Richard Hieck was a mathematics student at a German university. Poor, ungainly, shyly incoherent, he was a good mathematician and ambitious to be a great one. So intent was he on the higher nature of his beloved science that it seemed right to him to be contemptuous of the easy...