Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First they dedicated a new million-dollar School of Hygiene and Public Health with words of appreciation for the co-operation of the John D. Rockefellers, father and son. The presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray of Baltimore, pronounced the invocation. Dr. Andrew Balfour, head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, had come across the Atlantic to speak...
Cherry Tree. "The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen piece of fiction made up by a minister named the Rev. Mason L. Weems, who wrote a life of our country's father which is stuffed with this and similar fables...
...Shensi province, besieged by an itinerant mercenary army for some months (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante) allegedly compromised with its besiegers last week, and as a result the 31 foreign missionaries shut up there since mid-April were able to depart last week. All left the city save the Rev. C. J. Jensen and his wife, and a number of Roman Catholic missionaries, who announced their intention of remaining indefinitely...
Alan Cobham, flyer: "When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society...
Bishop Webb revealed plans for another Congress in London next year, of which the subtitle was actually to be "The Holy Eucharist." Rev. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., chairman of the occasion, took his post and enunciated a seven-fold keynote, of which the most specific clause was: "To clarify the position of the Anglican Communion in respect to Protestant Christianity on the one hand and Roman Catholicism on the other...