Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steinway factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other life...
...decree of Chancellor Hitler no kosher meat may be prepared in Germany. It can only be imported, under restrictions so drastic that German rabbis are now urging vegetarianism as the only salvation of the Fatherland's 200,000 Orthodox Jews. Germany's remaining 350,000 Jews are rated nonOrthodox. Up to last week anti-kosher arrests had all been for the crime of smuggling in kosher meat illegally. Butcher Frohwein was the first to be arrested for actual kosher butchery...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia by an Orthodox priest and her first-born child...
...result of too much activity by the pituitary and adrenals, with the pituitary gland probably the worst offender of the two. It is also our idea that carbohydrate metabolism is controlled by a balanced mechanism consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content of the blood."-Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist-. in the Illinois Medical Journal last...