Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very familiar to those outside the Church. Consequently, while Strangers and Pilgrims was meant primarily to be a book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each of these works, the reader will be able to catch the main philosophical points and appreciate for himself the greatness of Dean Sperry's subject...
...spite of the bungling management--and it can only be called bungling when Yardlings are rudely jarred out of their sleep of a Monday morning to decide a matter of such weighty proportions--Freshmen have shown their ability to arrive at the one rational answer. And have answered in such a sweeping manner that none can doubt their conviction, that none can ignore their mandate...
...victorious Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland asked Athletic Director W. Don Harrison for a handful of spending money so that the team, having just netted Pitt $95,000 by beating Washington, could celebrate in Hollywood. Director Harrison primly refused. Jock shelled out the money himself, fought the matter out in Pittsburgh until Harrison resigned that March. It was then that Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman turned from firing "liberal" teachers to purifying Pitt's frankly subsidized football team...
Ever since early last month, when the Boston Bruins body-checked and spilled the pressing New York Rangers, most hockey fans have recognized the Bruins as the National Hockey League champions. Early last week the Bruins settled the matter beyond doubt, beating the Detroit Red Wings to put themselves completely out of reach of the pursuing Rangers...
Considerably more dramatic than Crisis in its subject matter, The 400,000,000 is photographically more exciting. Its principal defect is diffuseness in narrative method, overenthusiasm for old newsreel shots. Effective sequence: farmers, summoned by a Chinese Paul Revere on a horse, picking up rifles as they leave their rice fields...