Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian gentleman was Dr. Drury but not popular with many St. Paul boys...
Everyone here admired and respected him far too much to hate him. His esteemed leadership and friendly advice touched, indeed, everyone in the school, but especially the members of the sixth form, who in many different ways came into a closer contact with this true Christian gentleman...
...every part of Austria last week statues of the late Engelbert Dollfuss, who created at Vienna his country's Christian Corporative State (TIME, May 14, 1934), were thrown down and broken up with sledgehammers by Nazis...
...recantations of opposition to Stalin in & out.of court during the past 15 years. A novelty in court was that the Jewish prisoner Rozengolts was discovered last week to have been unconsciously going around with a piece of consecrated bread sewn into his clothes by his wife together with a Christian prayer. The court found that Rozengolts alone of the 21 had wished to kill Stalin with his own hand, had for this purpose sought as many interviews with the Dictator as possible. After so confessing, Communist Rozengolts wound up: "Millions of Soviet children, including my own, sing that There...
...century, nutritional scientists discovered that the wasting nerve disease called beriberi, which had afflicted rice-eating Orientals for thousands of years, was caused not by a harmful agent that got into the body but by the lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from...