Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FOWLER -G. G. Coulton - Society for Pure English Tract No. XLIII- Oxford University Press...
...cuts off his allowance. Faced with a thoroughly frightening economic reality he comes to heel like the well-brought-up son of his mother that he is, drops Julie like an old bone. Author Breuer's intention was not tendentious, but Memory of Love does better as a tract on snobbery than as a tragedy of souls...
...Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters nor as a man of Bach. A statue of a savage Negro turned his mind and later his feet toward Africa. After studying medicine for four years, Schweitzer obtained from a French missionary society a tract of land at Lambarene, went there in 1913. As a present from friends he took with him into the wilds a piano stoutly constructed to protect it from the climate. The same friends later gave the missionary a small organ, the case of which had been carefully ant-proofed...
...violent departure from the past and the unity of Christendom in the West. Erasmus was an enlightener, a teacher of reason, a vigorous opponent of unthinking subjection to tradition. This cloistered scholar in a brief seven days of relaxation from his studies produced his "Praise of Folly"--a tract so exquisitely satirical that it places him on a pedestal among his contemporaries and yet so pointed that it set the fire of unrest which was to break into an all-consuming flame when Luther, the violent forceful sword of reason pointed for battle with Rome. Although he was the subject...
...chairman of the board) was dressed in brown. Cousin Felix (vice president) was handsome in pale grey with socks and tie to match. Like burlesque impresarios, munitions makers do not desire publicity. The du Fonts prepared for their ordeal by issuing a 42-page booklet (and a 13-page tract explaining the booklet) stating their company's position in the matter of munitions...