Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest. Dr. Sam Higginbottom, third layman to head the Church, is president of India's Allahabad Christian College, and rated the ablest agricultural missionary in the world...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...
Honorable mention for the undergraduate prizes was given to Howard S. Nemerov '41 of New York City for "The Questor-Hero", Epes D. Chase '39 of Milton for "Coleridge's Concept of Art and Its Significance in His Philosophical System," and Richard W. B. Lewis of Philadelphia for "The Christian Humanism of Marguerite de Navarre...
...Heywood Broun, these seemed strange words indeed. Although he had never attacked a Christian church as such, he had in the past laid about him in bludgeoning fashion among the churches, belaboring reactionaries like Bishop James Cannon Jr., Canon William Sheafe Chase, Anthony Comstock (in a biography he helped write). To many a U. S. churchman, Heywood Broun was a Red, certainly a freethinker, probably an atheist...
...Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California...