Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. blew the dust off some rare old statistics on the state of the U.S. thirst. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits was 2.86 gallons in 1860, only 1.22 gallons...
...Hunger, Thirst & Bombs...
Your red-bordered article on atomic activity coming directly after and alongside [two articles headed] "Hunger, Unabated," and "Thirst, Unslaked" [TIME, Feb. 10] is masterly placement...
...give you any help of consequence, an inability which I regret as much as anything in my whole life. But I regard your translation as superior to any before it.-I hope you will continue until you have finished the entire New Testament. Thus you will slake the thirst of all Christians in China . . . and help our Christianity spread ever more widely. Best wishes, Chung-cheng" (Chiang's intimate or "courtesy" signature...
Translator Wu intends to devote much of his future to slaking his country's Christian thirst. In Rome, where he goes this month to represent China at the Vatican, he will work on his translation of the New Testament. Eventually he hopes to publish a volume of confessions dealing with his own religious experiences...