Word: frazer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Gibbon, says Toynbee, was not the only eminent scholar to view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish and immoral doctrine" of "Oriental religions which inculcated the communion of the soul with God and its eternal salvation as the only objects worth living for. . . ." The result, said Frazer, was "a general disintegration of the body politic...
...Frazer and Gibbon, Historian Toynbee replies: the Graeco-Roman civilization was not destroyed by Christianity but "decayed from inherent defects of its own." He also rejects the idea that religions act as bridges between civilizations. He sees it as just the reverse...
While the rest of the auto industry picked up speed, the newest producer suddenly eased up on the throttle. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. announced that it had laid off some 3,500 night workers, cut production from nearly 1,000 cars a day to around...
...Drohan registered 128.40 points off the high board to score his seventh victory of the season in the diving contest, with Penn's Frazer second, and Bill Barnett third for the winners. Tom Woods won the backstroke in 1:45.6 with Snelling Brainard second
Unlucky Henry. Kaiser-Frazer had paid through the nose for that stock-buying job. Wall Street gossiped that many of those with inside information had taken advantage of the "stabilizing" to unload their holdings at the higher price. After K-F stopped buying, the stock started down. At $11, K-F had already lost over $460,000 on its stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find...