Word: emile
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Calvinist Theologian Emil Brunner of Switzerland knows that "Christianity and Civilization" is a big subject. He does not even believe that there has ever been such a thing as a Christian civilization. "What is usually called by that name," he says, "is a compromise between Christian and non-Christian forces." But he chose to tackle the subject because he feels that no civilization can rightly be called "human" that is not based upon Christianity...
Colonel Charles P. Summerall, Jr., who heads the Army ROTC unit, was appointed professor of Military Science and Tactics; Major Jarvis R. Kingston was appointed professor of Air Science and Tactics; Major Emil Kremer became associate professor of Air Science and Tactics. Commander Joseph P. Fitz-Patrick was named associate professor of Naval Science, and Lieutenant Charles E. Stastny will become assistant professor of Naval Science...
Among the union leaders at the signing ceremony at the White House was President Emil Rieve of the C.I.O. textile workers. As he left the White House, he announced a new goal: his 450,000 members will ask Congress to raise the minimum wage to $1 an hour...
...first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already 40-0, and there it stood at game...
After thinking over President Truman's Point Four program for backward nations, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram spotted a big flaw in the idea. Point Four would wrap a protective government guarantee around private funds invested outside the U.S. What irked Schram was that there was no program for improving "the shabby treatment of capital at home...