Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully hidden. While working long hours at his dispensary, he found time to compile the first Japanese-English dictionary, which was so much in demand that three years after its publication copies were selling for as much as $62. The system of transliteration which he invented is still used to convert Japanese characters into Roman letters. In 1880, working with other missionaries, Hepburn completed a translation of the Bible into Japanese; for a time the wooden blocks which were being secretly made for a translation of the New Testament were hidden by day behind the bottles of his dispensary...
...United Evangelistic Advance could double the membership of the co operating churches and still be a failure...
...could halve them and still succeed. It could powerfully stir the emotions of mil lions and leave behind it neuroses, disillusionment and bitterness ... On the other hand, it could move quietly across the land and leave in its wake lives trans formed by the power of God, illumined by sound knowledge of Christian truth, radiant in the experience of fulfillment in the Kingdom of Christ...
Last week, though still in the vertical stripes of a trusty, Bill Moody faced a possible $10,000 fine and two years in prison for breaking FCC rules. But Bill was not much worried: for long-ago robberies and other matters, he still had some 40 years to serve...
...four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde...