Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvation Army has come up in the world since then. When Commissioner Parker began his work, social service people considered the Salvationists as human refuse collectors, had slight use for the idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw...
...Chaucer), he was one of modern Britain's keenest literary minds and a master of paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane...
...legal authority for it. The new Brazilian Constitution which Vargas proclaimed in 1937 authorized him, for purposes of defense, to "dismember" Brazilian states and convert them into Federal territories (like Alaska), governed from Rio de Janeiro under special laws. Vargas' new territories, carved from five states (Para, Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Paraná, Santa Catharina), create a strip of centrally controlled buffer areas along the frontiers between Brazil and nine of its neighbors...
Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
...They Stopped Dying." With a convert's zeal, De Kruif lists the selling points for prepaid group medical practice...