Word: lotuses
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Instead the arena was transformed into a nursery lotus land. Even the tanbark had changed color, to a bright blue. Over it, one after another, rolled glorious floats and glittering equipages of white and gold, bearing hundreds of characters from Mother Goose. Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon...
...Lilies as we know them today are not native to the Holy Land. The lily of the Old Testament is usually the lotus or iris; the "lilies of the field" which outshone Solomon are anemones...
...second biggest U. S. university (first: California), is a vigorous, booming educational service station like Ohio State (TIME, Jan. 22). Many of its 15,000-odd students are poor and doggedly hardworking. To build them a worthy social centre was an ambition of Minnesota's late great President Lotus Delta Coffman. Last fortnight Minnesota's students, faculty and alumni (aided by PWA) made his wish a fact, dedicated the $1,850,000 Coffman Memorial Union on the Mississippi's bluffs. Last week, Minnesota's boys and girls tramped over its thick red carpets, sprawled...
Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...
...Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...