Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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February 19-Professor Kinsopp Lake on "The Evolution of Christian Thought...
...Army there are 125 chaplains. Chief among them is John T. Axton, Congregationalist native of Salt Lake City, Utah. Chief of Chaplains Axton is apparently hale, and only 52. Hence he is not due for retirement until...
...monotonous humor. Perhaps it is because one becomes more accustomed to it, perhaps it is because it seems to fit in so well with the weirdness of the surroundings,--for one reason or another we cease to be bored with the witticisms of the two travellers (for it was Lake's idea that they escape Paris) when at last they are on the trail. Trail is rather a strong word to use, for the wanderings were directed mainly by the valley of the Dinder. Streeter manages to keep us with him on his wanderings and one might almost...
...Fogg eastward the course of the Old Testament takes its way. Not even the demands of Divisional examinations, which may now be taken at almost any reason of the year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those...
Overnight Lake Constance in Switzerland rose 15 feet as the upper reaches of the Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...