Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture in English 35a, Professor Lake carefully explains that the course will be of no use for those who are preparing to pass departmental Bible exams. Just how far he is right is a moot point. At least, one is forced, or should be forced, to read the Old Testament, and if it is the first time, there is some help. Otherwise, very little...
...Donald Randall Richberg, general counsel of the NRA said: "This is . . . not a war of man against man. It is rather a war of ideas-the co-operative idea against the idea of unrestrictive competition-the idea of national welfare against the idea of unrestrictive self-seeking-the New Testament against the Old Testament -the Sermon on the Mount against the Mosaic...
Most startling ideas of the new religion were: the Old Testament, being a Hebrew Book, is to be forbidden in German Sunday Schools. German Christians will substitute for it 100% German mythology-Wotan for Moses, Siegfried for Saul. Saints of the new religion will be such War heroes as that potent air fighter, the late Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...Cincinnati three weeks ago pious citizens, as an evangelical stunt, spent 16 hr., 40 min. spelling each other through a continuous reading-aloud of the entire New Testament (TIME, March 27). Last week Cincinnati's City Council listened to a like reading of all 659 pages of the city's ordinances...
...Jewry has given the world many a magnum opus, including Christendom's best-known book, few true-blue Jewish novels aim at or succeed in putting Christian readers in a state of grace. Solal does just that; it is a wild, melodramatic romance, stuffed with grotesque comedy, Old Testament lamentations, sensual psalms, shrewd cynicism and shrewder kindliness, ending finally in pure parable. When Solal appeared in Paris in 1930, even the French literary press sputtered : "A great Jewish novel . . . a great book . . . tumultuous . . . explosive . . . overbrimming...