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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith, George Moore, in cadenced prose, had Jesus survive the crucifixion to spend the rest of a long life in retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went backwards, Composer Weinberger had carefully labeled it with the Latin words More Hebraeorum (in the Hebrew manner)* with the explanation: THGIR EHT MORF DAER ESAELP TFEL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Before Longfellow | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Also standing to profit are Argentina and Uruguay, only major producers of carpet wool in South America. Now the U. S. should become their A1 wool customer, which will suit everybody. For the more wool the U. S. buys in Latin America, the more exchange Latin America will have with which to satisfy its needs in the U. S. market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Good Clip | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Richard H. Flnn, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., who received an A.B. magna cum laude last June and who was the Latin crator at Commencement exercises, was awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Are Awarded to Five Outstanding Law School Men | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

Edward Kennard Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, and Mrs. Rand have been made Chevaliers of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, it was reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: France's Legion Of Honor Given to Professor Rand | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

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