Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under him again. What is expected of the American fighting man of today ? Is he expected to follow General Dean's suggestion and carry some deadly poison to take if capture seems imminent? Are the quartermasters to issue cyanide pills along with other combat gear? Are we, a Christian nation, now to become devoted to harakiri? Ridiculous! But that is the only logical sequence if Colonel Schwa-ble is not completely exonerated and restored to a full-duty status...
...Brown must know that the regions where the birth rates are at a biological maximum are Russia, China, Japan, Indo-China, Africa, Egypt, Palestine and Turkey-none of which are in any way under the control or influence of the Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines ... It is un-Christian ... to make such outrageous accusations against the one church which is doing the most in the world today to alleviate the sufferings of the "dirt-encrusted, malnourished and disease-ridden children." ROBERT K. MANTON Bad Kreuzenach, Germany...
Sears built a reputation as an able trial lawyer specializing in defending claims against insurance companies, became president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. In 1952, a candidate of the Taft forces, he made an abortive bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination against Congressman (now Governor) Christian Herter...
BECAUSE they can immerse themselves wholeheartedly in a make-believe world, children make fine illustrators. The fact is being handsomely proved by a traveling exhibition of children's illustrations for the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born in Denmark 149 years ago last week. The show, a vast one to which 45 nations contributed, is divided into sections; this week part of it was on display at the New York Public Library, another part at the Municipal Art Gallery of Davenport, Iowa. Organized by a Danish welfare group, the exhibition is being circulated throughout the free...
...write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about her when he died...