Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which he describes in a lurid Budenz-like chapter...
...unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord...
...proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful condition set down by our Saviour for those who would be His disciples: If any man come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow...
Thirty Polish Jews went AWOL in Britain two weeks ago to escape the "virulent antiSemitism" of the Polish Army. Specifically, they said that Polish officers called Hitler the saviour of Europe for exterminating the Jews. Seeking transfer to British units as 200 others had successfully done last month, they were arrested, charged with desertion...
...revised Hymnal's nearly 600 hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...