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...four years between 1542 and 1546, there were 58 executions and 76 banishments in a city of about 20,000. Yet to those with a taste for it, Geneva under Calvin seemed almost like an earthly outpost of the Kingdom of God. The famed Scottish reformer, John Knox, lived there for three years and called it "the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To End a Scandal | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Announcement has been made of the Sheldon, Shaw, and Knox fellowships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Announced | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

...students received Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships. They are Chesley P. Booth of Eliot House, Craig K. Comstock and Thomas E. Weisskopf of Quincy, Robert P. Fichter and Carl J. Green of Lowell, and Robert S. Leiken of Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Announced | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

...Fort Knox resolution will not get a Rules Committee passport to the House floor; it is certain to be shelved by the votes of the new liberal majority, headed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, which is anxious to get on with the business of approving President Kennedy's legislative program. But the Kearns proposal was followed quickly by Rules Committee consideration of a flood of other absurd resolutions, such as one that would have authorized a House investigation of "the social and economic problems engendered by parenthood outside of wedlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having a Wonderful Time | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...undertake the enterprise, many individual churchmen in the tradition of Erasmus did as best they could by themselves. In 1902, R. F. Weymouth brought out his The New Testament in Modern Speech; and in 1913 came James Moffatt's The New Testament: a New Translation. More recently Msgr. Ronald Knox--in 1945--and Dr. J. B. Phillips--in 1947--have published servicable and entirely adequate individual translations...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The New English Bible: Truth in Bureaucratese | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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