Word: macedonia
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...Chief Harry Truman had failed to note the day with a greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter, I will be most happy to assure him that conditions have not materially changed in the world 1,900 and more years after the birth of Christ...
...have told me nothing about Macedonia beyond the implication that the place needs help. What are the social advantages? Is the church well organized...
...Bible records that when St. Paul got his call to "come over into Macedonia and help us," he set out "immediately." Nowadays, preachers are apt to be more wary. Here are some of the points St. Paul would have raised, says the Rural Church Department of Drew Theological Seminary (Methodist), if he had been like a lot of his 20th Century successors...
...First of all I should like to know whether Macedonia is a circuit or a station . . . If Macedonia embraces more than one preaching place, I may as well tell you frankly that I cannot consider the call...
...foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes to the 1919 Peace Conference...