Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the studies connected with this field work, researches in Cambridge included archaeological studies on Persia, northern Mesopotamia, the neolithic period in the Near East, Central Europe, the Valley of Mexico, Honduras, and Panama...
Before dawn one morning last week at Nablus a detachment of native policemen and soldiers, led by British Assistant District Commissioner W. Foote, moved off into the hills of northern Palestine. Their destination was the tiny Arab village of Mazar. With the squad moved armored cars. As they crept up on the village in the grey morning light, two British planes droned overhead. The Arabs scrambled from their houses to find their village surrounded...
Every year at the end of November muskrats set out to do something about their annual housing shortage. In the summer they burrow into the banks of streams or ponds but during the northern winter the underwater entrances freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern...
...communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified, and by last week in 30 of 42 Southern Methodist conferences, 90% of those voting favored the merger. Formal ratification must wait, however, on action by the Southern Church's annual conference next...
...Methodist churches seem to be finding a new unity in the U. S., in foreign lands they face new problems. In Chicago last week met the Board of Foreign Missions of the Northern Methodist Church. Chief question before the Methodists, as it has lately been before other missionizing churches, was: What to do about the Sino-Japanese War? U. S. Protestant churches spend nearly $4,000,000 a year for their Chinese missions, have many more millions invested in their 252 hospitals, their 21 colleges and universities. Of the missionaries who run such institutions, fully 95% have declined to leave...