Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describing a nine-point rating scale for teachers, which was developed at the University of Washington, presents an interesting problem when applied to some of the world's great teachers. I am surprised to discover that when measured by this scale, Pestalozzi, Vittorino, Confucius, Socrates, and Christ rate shockingly low. They do not seem to measure up in research or in activities...
...Christ, the Lord...
...Admitted to Council membership the Russian Orthodox Church of America (300,000 members), rejected the Universalist Church of America because its members, like Unitarians, do not believe Christ uniquely divine...
...knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932, five years later marched off with a green-shirted "Irish Army" to help Franco against "Communism and anti-Christ," returned to Dublin and oblivion...
Seven or eight centuries before Christ, song and story being at that time synonymous, the two principal epics of the ancient world were put together and attributed to a poet called Homer. Both poems related adventures incidental to a ten years' war that had been fought by the chivalry from the Peloponnesus against the chivalry of Asia Minor at a walled town, Troy, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Odyssey told of the wanderings of the Greek soldier, Odysseus, on his way home to the island of Ithaca (now Corfu); the Iliad told of the wrath of Achilles...