Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middle Ages, the Christian Church opened its arms to the oppressed, the persecuted and sometimes the prosecuted to offer them sanctuary, protection and preservation in the clerical precincts. Nowadays we have fish preserves and game preserves and gorilla sanctuaries. An occasional state, such as Delaware, has gone into business as a corporation sanctuary. It remained for Florida to come forward as a sanctuary for private wealth...
...appointment of Christian Henry Weymer '27 of Syracuse, N. Y., as Second Assistant Crew Manager was announced last night after an eight weeks' competition...
...gentleman who is one day to become to all German royalists Kaiser Wilhelm IV-Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Josef Christian Olaf von Hohenzollern, eldest son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm-had a chance to prove that he is made of the same metal as his ancestor, Frederick the Great. At Potsdam, capital of German Monarchism, the Stahlhelm, Monarchist organization, came into collision with the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Republican organization. Immediately there was a free fight in which the Monarchists were defeated and forced to flee. But in the middle of the scrap a tall, lanky young man with large...
General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," dictator at Peking...
Meantime, preparations were in train for the election to the Presidency of Marshal Tuan who is, apparently, to become the puppet President of the "Chinese Christian Soldier."His Japanese sympathizers are now heralded with widespread delight, although such was not always the case...