Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom known as the Solemn Hall, in Sofia's grey Palace of Justice, 15 Protestant pastors went on trial last week on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketeering. This time, the Communists were less hostile to foreign observers than they had been during the hasty trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. The world watched the slow, orderly proceedings at Sofia through 25 foreign correspondents and two official U.S. and British observers. But as one churchman after another took the stand and wept, shouted and whispered his "confession" and his "guilt," the world no more understood this trial...
...like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
Last Straw. When he started, the church had 150 members. Now there are 744; an extra hall and loudspeakers are needed to accommodate the congregation on Sundays. Last month, ground was broken for a new $100,000 church which will seat 600 people. But for all these tokens of success, Pastor Douds's conception of Christianity has riled some influential members of his flock...
Cecil Roth, reader in post-Biblical studies at Oxford, will discuss "Sources for the Study of the History of the Jews in England" at 8 p.m. today in the Alumnae Lecture Room of Radcliffe's Longfellow Hall...
Annex candidates for Student Government posts will meet their constituents today and tomorrow at two pre-election day teas. Commuters will attend today's meeting in Agassiz House at 3 p.m. and dormitory residents will gather in Cabot Hall at 3:45 p.m. tomorrow...