Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Odom looked fine. Said he: "The good Lord was taking care of me last night. That business scared me so much I haven't felt sleepy since...
...Britain, for centuries a bastion of tolerance and hospitable haven for Jews, * anti-Semitism had bloated to disturbing dimensions. Partly it was caused by events in Palestine. But, as before in Europe and in history, Jews were also being made the scapegoats for economic hardships. With increasing frequency, ordinary Britons coupled "spivs" with Jews...
...highly. It has been one of the glories of Protestantism that it has put its emphasis on the Individual, on Free Will and Free Choice. But the net result may prove to be disastrous. . . . I'm simply not as good as modern Protestantism assumes me to be. I haven't got the spiritual stuff to do, on my own, what modern Protestantism expects me to do. The church has failed me because it has given me too much freedom and too little discipline. ... It has assumed that all I needed was the right hand of fellowship, when . . . what...
They celebrated the occasion with "a few short cheers for the Crimson" until a morning after headache transformed the historic New Haven battleground into the bottom of the soggy Lamont excavation of the George A. Fuller construction company...
...upkeep of valuable but out-of-the-way bequests than it does on books that its undergraduates use. For the searching scholar it houses shelves full of irreplaceable documents on the Italian Risorgimento, Congo dialects, cooking and the privately printed pornographies of Mark Twain. Some of its treasures haven't been consulted by any one for half a century. Some others come in handy: during World War II, members of Harvard's 600-man library staff could predict coming invasions by the books Washington asked...