Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's Christian Meiji Gakuin College, a young student who couldn't remember the name Garry Davis, formally asked the government for permission to become a world citizen and "work for eternal peace on an international plane like that fellow in France...
...Austrians went to the polls this week, for the first time since 1945, to elect a Parliament. The election kept in power the anti-Communist coalition of Chancellor Leopold Figl's Christian-Democratic People's Party and the Socialists. The People's Party polled about 45% of the votes, captured 77 parliamentary seats (as against 85 in 1945). The Socialists got 67 seats (they had 76 before). The new League of Independent Voters, which is openly pro-Nazi, gained; it got an ominous 12% of the popular vote and 16 seats. The Communists, still Austria...
...liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
...course, for instance, is conducted by Ralph B. Dibble, account executive for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Beane and an instructor at Boston University. A course in contract bridge is given by Forrest N. Maddix, an authorized teacher of the Culbertson System, while William Drake, staff artist on the Christian Science Monitor, offers instruction in cartooning and newspaper drawing...
Reinstated in accordance with the commission's findings, she found that traditional "pagan" penological procedures were once again in force, she said, instead of the scientific, Christian methods she had introduced...