Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Various student organizations offered to help the State Department clean house, and the Harvard National Student Association delegation took on a batch of about 5000 of the letters, coding them by sex, age and interests of sonders; during the process some of the sorters abstracted many of the better letters to follow up on their...
...Force did wonders for the "timid" boy. In 1941, when he was 18, Chuck graduated from high school and enlisted as a private. He was trained as a mechanic, but was soon sent to flying school in various Western states. In northern California he met pretty, dark-haired Glennis Faye Dickhouse. Since then, all his fighting aircraft have been named Glamourous Glennis. Even the X-1 has Glamourous Glennis painted on its nose, but official Air Force pictures do not show...
...need of the prophetic and the creative, in their response to God's judgment and demand for a renewal . . . What the Church did through its saints, apostles, heroes and martyrs in meeting crisis after crisis should give the lesson and the encouragement. The creeds were all manmade, under various social conditions and against various political backgrounds. So were the organizational side and the different theological developments. Under the present social, economic, political and cultural conditions here in North China, Christians should be courageous enough to dissociate the Gospel and their churches from historical accretions...
...Communists are human beings like fragile Christians . . . For some time to come, Communists will be too busy in military operations, in the training of workers, and in conferences of various kinds, to pay much real attention to the churches. Should the churches not take the opportunity thus afforded to show their determination to accept the challenge wholeheartedly? . . . Communism is man's challenge to Christianity, but it is also God's judgment upon flabby churches . . . When it is proved that Christians can accept . . . criticisms and prove them to be unsound and untrue, thoughtful Communists will sit up and take...
Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...