Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan Moorehead and Rebecca West, it boils down a huge vatful of material without losing too much of the original felonious flavor...
...liturgical revival that both goes back to primitive Christianity in its emphasis on the Communion service as the central sacrament of worship and, at the same time, is immensely sophisticated in welcoming back much of the traditional richness of the church. "The revival," says Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the department of worship for the United Lutheran Church in America, "has made the church aware that there is a unity of the order of worship that includes both preaching and the Lord's Supper, and that these two cannot be divorced...
Looking to Saturday's battle with highly-rated Manhattan, Harvard weight coach Edgar B. Stowell is keeping top weight throwers Ted Bailey and Art Doten out of competition. Rick DeLone and Sarge Nichols will head a still-powerful Harvard weight team...
...Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan, escaping the pursuing Kuomintang. Li Fu-chun ably handled supply problems for the fleeing Reds. When the Communists finally reached Yenan 14 months later, only 25,000 of them were left. Li's wife has never fully recovered from the ordeal. Correspondent Edgar Snow dined with the Lis in 1936 and noted in his diary that Tsai Chang still remembered her Paris days and served him an excellent "meal of French cooking." Today, Li and Tsai Chang are the only husband and wife on the party Central Committee...
...Dawn. What long masked all this was Rice's former name, Rice Institute, which was finally changed last year. Rice has been a model university ever since it opened 49 years ago under aloof, derby-hatted President Edgar O. Lovett...