Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does Professor Edward S. Deevey explain it all? Well, says he, during the fourth glacial age the flora and the fauna of England and of Ireland, which at that time were part of the European continent, took the cold and perished. Then the ice melted and the sea rose isolating Ireland and England. Fast moving little hedgehogs, shrews and stoats came galloping from Europe to Ireland across a narrow bridge of land before the sea closed in. As for the slower snakes, they got only as far as England. And that, should the professor be right, was no better than...
...heralding chorales died away, the 236 members of the great festival choir filed into their seats in the chancel in back of the orchestra. Boston's E. Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According to St. Matthew that Johann Sebastian Bach had composed 220 years...
...that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then he got an idea from St. Matthew ("I was a stranger, and ye took me in") for a new kind of church column: he decided to visit a different church every Sunday as an unannounced stranger, and tell Press readers about the reception...
...welcome stranger at 550 of Cleveland's 800 churches, and his Monday column on the editorial page ("A Stranger Goes to Church") has become probably the liveliest and best-read newspaper church column in the U.S. This week, at its first meeting in Buffalo, the Religious Newswriters Association took official note of this; it elected 55-year-old Frank Stewart president...
Unlike most boys, Bill Deramus had a head start on his ambition to be a railroad engineer. His father was a division superintendent of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and frequently took Bill on rides. Bill never became an engineer, but last week he did even better. At 33, he became president of the Chicago Great Western Railway Co.-the youngest president of any Class I road...