Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Luther, one of whose most important works, says Historian McNeill, was no theological treatise, but a small essay introduced by a letter to Pope Leo X, who had been trying to persuade Luther to retreat from his stand. Luther himself said of his essay On Christian Liberty : "It is a small thing if thou regard its bulk, but unless I am deceived, it is the whole of Christian living in brief form." As in all his work, Luther named faith as the sole key to salvation; faith alone- not works-justifies the soul and frees it from bondage...
...Great Wall and U.S. aid. If both are strong or positive, the government will fight not only to hold on but to reclaim all Manchuria. If either is weak or negative, the government will still fight to the uttermost. But if both are weak and negative, then full retreat from Manchuria may well be necessary...
Raymond Crew '51 organized a chamber orchestra to serenade the Freshmen from the Union balcony at luncheon Saturday. The group was driven into disorganized retreat, however, amidst a shower of rolls and hotdogs accurately directed by these eating on the floor below. Refusing to be daunted, Grew obtained endorsement of his nomination from starlett Gloria Grahame of the movie, "Crossfire...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin left last Aug. 19 for his Black Sea retreat, Sochi. He has not yet returned from his longest vacation in years. However, the machine that carries out his will never rests. Last week world Communism was still gaining in power on several fronts, notably China; but it was sharply checked in the crucial battle for Europe...
...president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...