Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...
This year 1.33% more people belong to U. S. churches than last year, reported the Christian Herald in releasing its annual church statistics last summer (TIME, July 12). But Statistician Roger Ward Babson, Moderator of the National Council of the Congregational-Christian Church, has long believed, from a study he made of 1,000 churches, that church attendance is decreasing. Last month, in a sermon such as he delivers annually to Congregationalists at Isles of Shoals, N. H., Moderator Babson impugned the Christian, Herald figures, said that church rolls "contain not only the names of millions who have repudiated...
...same "Christ Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with...
...This summer the ticks got so bad in Florida's Orange, Osceola, Polk, Charlotte, Hendry and Collier counties that...
...This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...