Word: kolb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other dictionaries came out, the great book became overshadowed by the man. How good a dictionary was it? This week, on the sooth anniversary of its publication, Johnsonians could find the answers in two new studies: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb of the University of Chicago (University of Chicago Press; $5), and Young Sam Johnson, by James L. Clifford, professor of English at Columbia University (McGraw-Hill...
...investigating committee sent from Bamberg by Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb had some harsh things to say about the "vision children," whose stories were muddled and contradictory. The latest vision child, 17-year-old Hildegard Lang, had even scheduled her daily visions promptly at 3, 5 and 7. In May 1950, the archbishop declared that the visions were not supernatural and forbade Catholics to participate in the hillside rites...