Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bessemer converters, store away such bits of useful knowledge as: "It takes five tons of material to make one ton of steel." Touching off a brighter spark of interest was the Hall of Progress. There, not far from a distiller's display, was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's booth, the Ohio State Chiropractic Society's show, a $275,000 exhibit of the good works of the Federal Government. In the Automotive Building were a Dream Bus of 1950, the coach in which Abraham Lincoln drove to his assassination, streamlined toilets, streamlined murals...
...streets to the cathedral. At the sight the Siennese fell on their knees as all the church bells tolled. Siena's greatest masterpiece, this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios...
Ever since 1934, when the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency forced them to make their products less offensive, cinema producers have been satisfied that their wares matched the highest standards of Christian morality...
...excellent experiment that now offers us a most welcome opportunity of manifesting more fully our thought in regard to a matter which touches intimately the moral and religious life of the entire Christian people...
...Even the crudest and most primitive minds, which have neither the capacity nor the desire to make the efforts necessary for ... deductive reasoning, are captivated by the cinema. . . . The cinema . . . must be elevated to conformity with the aims of the Christian conscience...