Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parsons who had spent the summer exchange-preaching in Manhattan hastened to do their British bit. Said Rev. Dr. Donald Davidson, Bournemouth Presbyterian: "This dictator will find that he has not only France and England to reckon with but our Lord as well. God made the world and has every right to control it. If He did not take action in what we have seen at the present time, we would think He was indifferent." Dr. Frederick William Norwood, onetime pastor of London's City Temple, reproached the U. S.: "You are a little too big to cover yourself...
...Gideon dues ($5), raise money for Gideon's work-putting Bibles in hotels and institutions. The 40th anniversary "Gideon Roundup" was organized by Gideon Nicholson, spry at 80. Gideon Knights was there too, but feeble at 86. Gideon Hill died three years ago. In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future...
...Lazarist,* Father Täpper ran a hospice at Tabgha, in which a handful of monks and nuns gave visitors simple food, simple comfort. His friends called the jovial, pipe-smoking father the "King of Galilee." The Arabs who worked for him and netted fish on his shores made him their sheik...
Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...
...begun jumping from balloons in parachutes that opened automatically. In 1918 he was the first man to try using a parachute in a pack that had to be opened after the jumper left the plane. It worked. Les Irvin's first pack parachute was made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh...