Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...champagne-flavored, poker-table good fellowship of midwar, the problem of postwar Germany did not seem to confound Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Over after-dinner liqueurs one night at Teheran they jauntily planned the Reich's future. "The world must be made safe for at least 50 years," remarked Churchill. "There will have to be certain measures of control. I would forbid them all aviation, civil and military, and I would forbid the General Staff system...
Pastor Hilbert promptly struck up a song which his flock often uses on fellowship occasions; he knew the congregation would take the familiar...
...members of the congregation obediently began to circulate, shaking hands. When they came to the black-faced stranger, two stouthearted men offered him the right hand of fellowship. He pulled away...
...with a brand new citizenship and six months back pay, John Wolpe sailed for North America. A veterans' counselor advised him to take college aptitude tests and he placed as a sophomore at the University of Manitoba. He graduated with top honors and came to Harvard on a fellowship in the fall of 1949. As a teacher here he rapidly became a favorite, for his sections were among the livliest and most informative in the French department. At the same time his own graduate studies netted him an unbroken and awesome string...
...learning that biblical scholarship cannot be divorced from contemporary Christian testimony. Indeed, they even begin to sense that, in order to penetrate to the core of biblical religion, they must give up the delusion of 'absolute' scientific objectivity . . . They must join, with humility and consecration, the [fellowship] of the saved and look at it from within...