Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...
German national lawn (at Hamburg)- Singles, Christian Boussus of France; doubles, Jacques Brugnon & Christian Boussus of France; women's singles, Frau von Reznicek...
...banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune. Harold's hobby is the Iowa Young Men's Christian Association. He is to be vice president of the new bank, his father the president...
Near Elsinore, Denmark, stands austere, venerable Kronberg Castle. It was here that mournful Danish Prince Hamlet lived his strange interlude of sorrow, yearned for the sad Ophelia. It was here they imprisoned Caroline Matilda, idiot King Christian VII's "Queen of Tears." As Elsinore grows, imports new customs, machinery, the castle remains apart. About its solid gothic structure there is an air of infinite age and sorrow...
Meharry College goes back to a wandering Irishman who raised five sons as Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...