Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the general assembly voted to put the Seminary under a single board of control, and heard an investigating committee recommend that Dr. Machen's appointment "be not confirmed." Said Moderator Thompson, his head bowed, his voice faltering: "It is not more theology but more religion that is needed in Princeton." The general assembly applauded...
...Ozora S. Davis of Chicago Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate home missions, church building, Sunday school extension, educational and publishing work theretofore handled by separate boards; heard a committee recommend a merger of Congregationalists with Universalists, Christians, United Brethern, Brethern and Methodist Protestants...
...newspapers had heard of no earthquake. A week passed and no far-flung correspondent cabled, radioed or telegraphed news of a disaster. But seismographs do not lie. There had been an earthquake and it had been violent...
Concerning lions, Mr. Johnson said: "We came upon what was literally a virgin valley swarming with lions. They had never heard a shot fired, and treated us with the utmost indifference. Food for them was so plentiful that they even disdained the dead zebras we put out as bait, merely walking up and sniffing at the food we had provided. . . . Day after day, for weeks at a time we filmed them, getting them in groups and families of ten or fourteen at a time. Altogether we photographed 147 lions...
...Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...