Word: flock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Highest Bishop Muller tried to calm his flock by suspending temporarily the "non-Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...
...flock of blue-jerseyed athletes will arrive in Boston this morning to battle for Eli on the gridiron and the soccer field. Yale is sending nearly 150 men to compete in sports over the week-end and 43 of these are Varsity football players...
...paradox is the fact that hot, dry, healthful Southwestern U. S. cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...
...abolished. At great length he points out that Harvard graduates and undergraduates should have the pleasure of watching those who represent them on the gridiron not only on Saturday afternoons, but whenever practice is being held. Whether or not he is right in supposing that "hundreds of undergraduates" would flock to Soldiers Field to watch the Varsity practice on weekday afternoons, were that permitted, is a question open to considerable doubt, but what is most important is that the abolition of secret practice would be a decided step in making football less professional than it is at present...
...Jesse Jones has a flock of "double blue eagles" that he wants to give to banks which will sell capital securities to the R. F. C. (TIME, Oct. 23). Jesse Jones wants the big metropolitan banks particularly to win his double blue eagles so that the small banks, which really need fresh funds to qualify for the Government's deposit insurance scheme, will not be bashful about stepping up to the R. F. C. till. Last week the 19 big banks of the New York Clearing House Association, which gave Jesse Jones the bitterest opposition, suddenly decided with...