Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, Berlin was becoming alarmed lest Poland and Hungary succeed between them in grabbing the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which...
Commissions of the two churches have explored bases for unity, have narrowed the differences in their beliefs considerably-but have not eliminated them. Although both believe that the Bible is the Word of God, American Lutherans believe it more fully, their commission holding that Scripture is "one organic whole without contradiction and error." United Lutherans go no farther than to concede that the Bible is "a complete, perfect, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre." This week the Baltimore conference votes on (and is expected to accept) a statement of faith, prepared by Lutheran theologians, which will place their...
...twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will be to shatter this conviction...
...Since 1930 airline mail-loads have increased over 100%, passenger-miles 500%, freight and express 1,600%. Airline employment has meanwhile increased 350%, from 3,400 to 12,000, may reach 25,000 by 1943. The industry as a whole can expect to employ at least 97,000, at most...
...Thorndike found it unnecessary to add that these emoluments are higher, on the whole, than those of distinguished scientists in universities and endowed institutions of pure science...