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...Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford: "You never refer to Barth's Church Dogmatics but rather to his Kirchliche Dogmatik, to show that you don't bother with trots...
...administrators of Widener also emphasize that undergraduates who do not have passes can obtain books from the stack during the daytime chasing hours. But busy schedules and laboratories frequently force students to use the library at night--especially if they want to read extensively in a periodical or refer to a large number of sources...
...there never was. A further device, for which the reader can be grateful, is to tell great lies about his adventures. There even seems to be some doubt about his real name, which he says is von Falkenhausen, though there are reports to which neither he nor his publisher refer, that it is actually Peter Brooke...
Step or Misstep? But one of Khrushchev's most persistent demands is for the creation of an East-West nonaggression pact. The term has been bandied about so much by the U.S. State Department that cables arriving from overseas refer to it simply as "NAP." Publicly, the U.S. has demurred, saying it can do nothing until the subject has been thoroughly discussed with all members of the Western Alliance. Some allies, notably West Germany, fear that NAP could lead to recognizing and "normalizing" a permanently divided Germany. If that were to happen, the test ban treaty, designed...
...American named Adolph J. Heimbeck, who died in 1958, cut off his two sisters because "they revere Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the taxes caused by him more than equalled their share." A 73-year-old bachelor attorney, Charles Millar, capriciously started what Canadians still refer to as the "Baby Derby" by bequeathing $568,106 "to the Mother who [in the ten years after his death] has given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children." The ensuing fertility race shocked the nation, but on May 30, 1938, the prize was duly divided among four winners who had tied with...