Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stewart Duke-Elder, Presbyterian minister's son who rose to become one of Britain's top eye specialists and Surgeon-Oculist to the King, had just come back from Buckingham Palace. His royal patient had added his personal honor to Sir Stewart's already impressive collection of medals and awards. The King, who reads through horn-rimmed glasses because of farsightedness, could thank Britain's foremost glaucoma expert for many a service to the Empire as well as to royal eyes. (Sir Stewart had also treated the Duke of Windsor, operated successfully on the Duchess...
...John S. Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church found "many helpful changes where the meaning of the text is ambiguous or obscure," but feared that the Revised Standard might "bring some of the atmosphere of the street into . . . the sanctuary...
...townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...
...studious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Houston was a college physics teacher at 20, a full professor at Cal Tech at 31, at 34 the author of a definitive text in mathematical physics. For several years during the 'war he worked on anti-submarine devices at Columbia University. No backslapping endowment hustler, Physicist Houston intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people...
Trade-school ads urged: "Become an Expert Accountant," "Get into Radio Electronics." Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Presbyterian president of interdenominational Union Theological Seminary, thought to himself: if mechanical engineers can be recruited, why not ministers? Concluding that the best material for future ministers lay in the armed forces, Van Dusen got together with Union's Board Chairman Thatcher M. Brown and Oilman-Philanthropist Walter C. Teagle. Result: a threeyear, $30,000-a-year program, to advertise the ministry as a career and to help students toward...