Word: churchward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invented out of whole cloth by James Churchward, who wrote several detailed, popular books about its inhabitants and their alleged "secrets." Lemuria, originally a geologists' land mass that sank 60 million years ago, was appropriated and modernized by Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society. She used it as a home for her "Third Race" of apelike, four-armed men who came to a bad end after discovering...
Easter is the one day of the year when everyone who calls himself a Christian goes to church, if he ever goes at all. Congregations flock churchward in their Easter best, and the churches themselves are brave with flowers; the preachers for once preach joyful sermons, the singing soars with hallelujahs. After the penitential season of Lent, the long winter night of the Christian year, Easter comes like the dawn -the dawn of the first day of spring...