Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum or rugs on the floor. All have running water, insulation, electric light, heat. Cost...
...welcomed Missionary Jones and his white God. Among the first ten pupils in the school which the Adventist mariner established was small Kata Ragoso. This black Christian grew up to succeed his father as Chief of Chiefs, to become an ordained Adventist minister. Kata Ragoso helped the white men convert 5,000 of the islanders, at one time brought all 400 inhabitants of one island to Christ. Kata Ragoso learned how to run a printing press and, with a cousin, made the first translation of the New Testament in the Melanesian language his people speak...
...happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came to nearly that. And he admitted that he had failed to convert the sprawling, striving, ugly U. S. to the cult of beauty. The U. S. was more interested in the killing of Jesse James, the trial of Guiteau, who shot President Garfield, the arrival of Lily Langtry, "the Jersey Lily." But Wilde did find two things to admire: Walt Whitman...
...rarefied subjects of Krishnamurti and Theosophy, TIME finds: 1) As to the arcane matter of his divinity. World Teacher Krishnamurti was recently reported saying: "I may or may not be the second Christ-I don't know. . . . Most people are dumb anyway. I don't try to convert them. I only try to wake them up so they can find out what life is really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, aimed...
...Home Abroad. Last autumn Frank Buchman held a swank revival meeting in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, featuring a prize European convert, President Carl J. Hambro of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). Last winter he and some of his young men sunned themselves in Miami. An active Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank...