Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill permanently its Hodge professorship in that subject- came one of the ablest of European theologians, Dr. Emil Brunner, late of the University of Zurich. Princeton thus reinforced its support of the "New Orthodoxy," the new theology based on old revealed truths and largely associated with the name of Switzerland's Karl Earth (TIME, April 25). Often bracketed with Earth, but not his follower, Dr. Brunner is a Bible theologian, orthodox enough in the Reformed faith to suit watchful Princeton Presbyterians...
From Lausanne, Switzerland, 77-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski made his first broadcast...
Born in Hungary and educated in Germany, Breuer brings to his works an international aspect, for he has traveled and practiced in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries. Based on thoroughly modern principles of design, his works, however, do not stand out like sore thumbs upon the landscape as do so many of the buildings of his contemporaries, for he has been able to incorporate into his style vernacular and traditional details which adapt the works to the surroundings in which they are placed...
...than the lie de Boeldieu tells to save his friends, the flower that von Rauffenstein places on de Boeldieu's chest after shooting him through the stomach. For the heroics of ordinary war pictures, Grand Illusion substitutes a pastoral interlude when Marechal and Rosenthal try to escape to Switzerland, and a German peasant woman shelters them on her lonely farm. The pastoral ends. A border patrol fires at the two fugitives in the snow. The shrill ring of the shots is the more shocking because they seem-as Director Renoir wishes to make war seem-completely out of place...
...foreign scholars three are from England, two from Germany, and one each from Switzerland, Russia, and Denmark...