Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light cigarets or cigars until the service was over. They heard sacred music on the stadium organ, listened to scripture reading, recited the Apostolic Creed, pledged allegiance to the flag, roared Luther's battle hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, put $15,260 into the collection, heard Indiana's Lutheran Governor Henry F. Schricker talk about the church in the postwar world, and, best of all, saw and heard Dr. Maier's initial broadcast of the current Lutheran Hour...
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey, Jeffers' successor, promptly retorted that these were needless worries. He said steps were being taken to supply the needed manpower and cord, declared his tests showed the new tires would be good enough. Officials pooh-poohed an Associated Press report that Indiana highway police had found synthetic tires faulty and had to discard a third of them after 1,500 miles because they developed heat blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand...
Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...
...what may well prove to be a revolution in language teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables. Every morning...
Many a Friend could and did argue that Indiana Yearly Meeting had bravely faced the modern world with a modern realism, that the two resolutions simply put on record views which Friends have long been privately laboring with. The resolutions would enable Friends to exert a force in the postwar world commensurate with their Christian purpose...