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Fundamentalism cropped up again last week when the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in St. Louis, voted down famed Modernist Henry Sloane Coffin for moderator, chose in his stead, by 461-to-404, Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, conservative pastor of America's second-largest Presbyterian church, Immanuel in Los Angeles...
...knew he'd learned a lot from the course. Not facts, no, but a certain savoir-faire that had served him in the best of stead in all the courses he had taken. He had picked up the knack of taking lecture notes and he had discovered that you could and should get away with a minimum of reading. He had learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names...
Eugene A. Stead, Jr., for an investigation on circulatory collapse and shock...
...chances of victory against defeat. They went into the fight because they felt there were some things like liberty that are more important than survival. The consciousness that they have given as good an account of themselves as their ancestors did against the Persians will stand them in good stead in their present adversity and keep their morale high and undefeated...
...Tennessee farmer, he went to Dallas to work for his well-to-do uncle, M. T. Jones; then went to Houston in stead of college. In nine years he ran one lumberyard into 65, branched out into real estate, banking, other investments...