Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recordings (129 of the Old Testament, 40 of the New), are played on a special slow-rotating phonograph. It takes half an hour to play one side of one record. Total time: 84½ hours...
...Carson Pirie Scott, a leading Chicago department store, displayed the weatherworn New Testament which Sergeant John Bartek read to buoy up Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his raftmates adrift on the Pacific...
With a fervor unmatched since the days of the Old Testament prophets, he went further and insisted that if his vision were followed it would bring victory, and with victory an end of human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen...
Unofficial reason: Winston Churchill was Dundee's M.P. from 1908 until he was trounced at the polls in 1922 by a Scottish prohibitionist and teetotaler named Edwin Scrymgeour. Mild-eyed Scrym stuffed his speeches with Old Testament quotes on the evils of John Barleycorn, gave Winston a beating he has not forgotten...
With his mother, wife and two sons, Dr. Maier lives on the campus of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary, a Lutheran stronghold and one of the largest Protestant seminaries in the U.S. He teaches two courses in Old Testament at Concordia. He also edits the Walther League Messenger (circulation: over 50,000) for Lutheran young folk, signs his three monthly editorials "W.A.M." His students call...