Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business of growing plants in water is centuries old. Long before the Christian era it was believed that plants got all their sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers...
...Last week Bishop Keeney was well satisfied with efforts to date: 227,000 units pledged. Spiritually, according to the Bishop, "Methodism is preparing to take the offensive again," and the Million Unit Fellowship is designed to lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week to the aid of Dr. Jones...
...Christ, with each sect represented as a "Branch." Mr. Rockefeller, who would belong to the Baptist Branch but who has publicly announced he will give no more millions to sectarian enterprises (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), voiced his agreement with Dr. Jones. Saying nothing about the Million Unit Fellowship, potential Christian Churchman Rockefeller declared: "It is a hopeful sign that many people are searching for a simple, fundamental religion as the way to peace, well-being and happiness. ... To the church should this quest naturally lead. But the church, with its sects, still clings to its denominationalism, in which a drifting...
...Only a united Christian world can stem the rising tide of materialism, of selfishness, of shaken traditions, of crum bling moral standards, and point...
...permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched a drive for $1,000,000 with the avowed intention of restoring Prohibition before 1945. Distillers who remember that the Volstead Act was preceded by just such an accumulation of Dry spots are ready to devote a large share of their considerable earnings* to the defense...