Word: esther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Esther Williams was busy writing a book, Would You Rather Be a Fish? Her literary method: 'the publishers sent her 200 questions, and she confided the answers to a recorder...
...They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached to an Evangelical Covenant Mission in Hupeh. Others, who reached Hankow, told their stories quietly, without rancor...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
...Novelist Esther Forbes, whose Paul Revere won the $500 Pulitzer Prize in 1943, came a gay package of Christmas goodies. A not-yet-published Forbes manuscript won the M-G-M Novel Award. It was worth $150,000 outright, and possibly $250,000 more if the book sales go well...