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Word: pennsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week, with the pomp of a court circular, did Buchmanism-heretofore quartered in Brown's Hotel, London - announce the acquisition of famed 18th Century Lord Clive's 34-room house in swankest Mayfair. Minimum price in the neighborhood: $50,000. Dr. Buchman, born in unswank Pennsburg, Pa., will make Berkeley Square his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Social Note | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Frank Buchman was born 58 years ago in Pennsburg of a Pennsylvania Dutch stilling family. He went to Muhlenberg College, Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, became a Lutheran pastor. Doing welfare work for Lutheran boys at Overbrook, Pa., he quarreled with trustees of his hospice, went to England with a bitter heart. In 1908 in a rural English chuch he says he had a stirring, heart-warming religious experience which set his life on a new course, revealed new spiritual powers to him. These new powers, enabling him to "probe souls" and "cleanse" by extracting confessions, earned him a shower undesirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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