Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer by profession," says Bishop O'Hara. He was born 68 years ago in a family of eight children on a farm near Lanesboro, Minn. After a chaplaincy in World War I, he was assigned to Eugene, Ore., where he founded the Na tional Catholic Rural Life Conference to promote Catholicism in rural U.S. Today the conference has 10,000 members and operates on a yearly budget of about $30,000. Explained Bishop O'Hara last week...
...most important product in rural America is children-not wheat or corn or flax ... The object of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, among other things, is to make the rural pastor conscious of the importance of his profession and of its dignity ... The Church is the biggest single factor in building up rural communities...
...time, he became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
...Mission. Readers had better not look for the overall grasp of high-level problems that marked Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins or for the tersely marshaled facts and concise, West Point English of General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission is a big, gabby book, easygoing and easy to read. For any reader trying to assemble the rounded story of World...
...pods up & down the mainstream of early Calvinist theology-the predestinarian doctrine that man is saved or damned in the mind of God before he is born. Soon they were in a dangerous eddy: that it doesn't really matter what sins a man commits in this life, as long as he is one of God's elect...