Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince of Peace. "I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy Week. In this decision I have been strengthened by the thought that by speaking tonight there may be greater peace of mind and that the hope of Easter may be more real at firesides everywhere, and that it is not inappropriate to encourage peace when so many of us are thinking of the Prince of Peace...
...Said a reporter to Franklin Roosevelt the day after the broadcast: "We thought it was Major Bowes." The President replied that someone else had asked him if it was Mark Sullivan...
...minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved...
When Sir Abe Bailey, rich & witty South African gold miner, had one of his legs amputated last summer, Capetown thought he was dead, dropped its flags to half mast.* Last week, suffering from phlebitis (vein inflammation), the doughty 73-year-old lost his other leg, two days later issued a personal bulletin declaring his operation successful, his condition satisfactory...
Five young men, selected for their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought, will join the Society of Fellows at Harvard University next September as Junior Fellows, devoting themselves to independent research and study for three years at the expense of the University...