Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest Crusade. Senator Ball called the Christian Mission "the greatest crusade since Jesus sent his twelve disciples out to preach the brotherhood of man," declared its purpose was "to remove the scales of fear and cynicism from the soul of America so that [we] may undertake confidently, with courage and vision, the building of a world order in which justice and reason, and not brute force, prevail...
...most famous living Negro, Paul Leroy Robeson was born 45 years ago in Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...
...might almost be called the first citizen of India." As such, he saw England and the world as might "a visitor from another planet." But though he was one of the least subjective of poets, Kipling was by no means detached. His first all-absorbing aim was to preach Empire and the men who extended and sustained it. Later on "he is more concerned with the problem of the soundness of the core of empire." At that same time "his vision takes a larger view, and he sees the Roman Empire and the place of England...
...been at Cincinnati's St. Rita School for the Deaf. He is now so proficient at sign sermons that he gets ahead of his listeners, has to slow down. (And deaf-mutes talk much faster with their fingers than other people talk with their tongues.) To preach a sermon vocally and sign it at the same time is like preaching in two languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make...
...together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided, all will fail. I therefore preach continually the doctrine of the fraternal association of our two peoples, not for any purpose of .... territorial aggrandizement . . . but for the sake of service to mankind...