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Schleiermacher's Thesis. Starting off from this premise, Tillich began to build a new synthesis of Protestantism. The essence of Protestantism, he taught, need not be fixed in sacraments, ecclesiastical authority, or even in Protestant churches themselves. ("Protestantism may live in the organized Protestant churches. But it is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Between Mountain & Plain | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Major was interested. For more than a year, tons of rice bran poured into one end of the Merck plant in Rahway and fractions of an ounce of B1 trickled out at the other end. Williams and the Merck-men tackled the job of synthesis, and in 1936 succeeded in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Hormones. Then came cortisone. In 1935, a biochemist at the Mayo Clinic, Edward Calvin Kendall, had isolated a hormone similar to those produced by the adrenal glands. But its extraction was painfully complicated; in seven years Kendall could produce only 40 or 50 grams from 120 tons of adrenal glands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Like so many of Stephen Spender's "generation of Hamlets" who saw the world out of order. Orwell went to Spain to fight in the menace of Fascism. He fought in the Trotskyite (POUM) militia was wounded and later fled the country when the Stalinist groups blackballed the POUM in...

Author: By G. JEROME Goodman, | Title: Reflections on the Spanish Civil War | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

Since it is a field that attempts a synthesis of four different sciences, Social Relations requires its students to pick a special area of interest within the department. One of the two three-hour departmental exams given at the end of the senior year tests the student's knowledge of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guide to Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

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