Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geometry. It began radiating officially some 230 years ago-a development from guilds of masons who built England's cathedrals. In 1717, guildsmen got together for a feast in the Goose & Gridiron tavern in London and the modern Masonic fraternity was born...
...England was in spiritual chaos after its revolt from the Church of Rome, and men were attracted to a moral code which was based on such undeviating symbols as the level, the compass and the plumb. The Masons conceived of God as "The Great Architect of the Universe." The "G" in Masonic emblems can stand for God and/or Geometry. Euclid and Pythagoras became the order's patron saints...
McDavid's questions touch on everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...also interests Researcher McDavid. The Scotch Irish, for example, brought along their favorite cow-call, sook, sook, when they came to the U.S. McDavid has traced sook, sook across Pennsylvania to the Alleghenies, then down the Shenandoah Valley as far as Lexington, Va. Many more farmers, especially in New England, prefer co-boss, co-boss...
...nine had been appointed from among the 63 delegates to the first meeting, in Chichester, England, of the World Council of Churches' central committee. Five of the nine were front-line veterans of the fight against totalitarianism. Pastor Martin Niemöller had spent eight years in a Nazi concentration camp; Norway's Bishop Arne Fjellbu was a leader in his country's wartime underground; Dr. Hendrick Kraemer was a member of the Dutch resistance movement; Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern...