Word: utrecht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring in Utrecht, Holland a constitution was drawn up for a projected World Council of Churches (TIME, May 23). Last week in Manhattan the U.S. backers of this movement met, learned that two U.S. churches, the Presbyterian and the Congregational-Christian, had voted to join the Council. Ten others approved in principle: the Northern Baptists, Reformed and Evangelical-Reformed Churches, two smaller Presbyterian bodies, two Lutheran groups, the Disciples of Christ, the Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches. Only body which had thumbed down the World Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, was expected to reconsider at its next meeting...
Forward. At the Oxford Conference on Church & State last summer (TIME, July 26), non-Roman churchmen from all over the world agreed in principle to the establishment of a World Council of Churches. To choose ten U. S. delegates to a preliminary conference which, in Utrecht, The Netherlands next May, will draw up a constitution for the Council, 30 U. S. churches claiming 30,000,000 members sent electors to a meeting at the National (Episcopal) Cathedral in Washington last fortnight. Having elected most of the delegates, leaders among the electors last week sought for a label by which they...
...substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins" by Kögl of Holland's Utrecht University, where much of the pioneer work on them was done. In 1928 a tall, dark young man named Fritz Warmolt Went, who began his botanical career at Utrecht under the tutelage of a distinguished father, got enough of one auxin in high concentration to measure its molecular weight. Three...
...their friends that they wished a new monstrance (altar vessel in which the Sacred Host is exposed). A piece at a time, gold came in to the sisters in the form of rings, pins, bracelets, keepsakes. The Carmelites had a monstrance designed by a firm of goldsmiths in Utrecht. Planning to have the monstrance plated, they sent the jewelry to a smelter to be converted into bullion. But they reckoned without President Roosevelt's gold acts of 1933 and 1934. Last week, in response to queries from the Carmelites regarding sending their bullion abroad, the Treasury Department informed them...
...following are appointed for one year from September 1: Harry R. De Silva, professor of Psychology at Massachusetts State College, Ph.D. Harvard '27, as lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control; Arie J. Haagen-Smit, privat-docent of the University of Utrecht, as lecturer on Biological Chemistry; George M. Stratton, professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, as research follow in Psychology; Talbot H. Waterman '36 of East Orange, N. J., as Austin Teaching Follow in Biology; and Charles Schweinfurth '13 of Brookline and Louis Williams of Moose, Wyoming, as research associate of the Botanical Museum...