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...Protestant missionary activity in the late igth century, the Moravians had established missions all over the world; today there are three times as many Moravians in the foreign mission churches as there are in the home churches. Moravians founded a city in Pennsylvania and called it Bethlehem (1740). Winston-Salem, N.C. was started by the Moravians in 1766. All such Moravian settlements were patterned after Herrnhut-all land and commercial enterprise was owned by the church; single men, single women and widows were housed apart. Last week the 55,000 U.S. Moravians (world membership: 300,000) celebrated in decorum...
...seat to Labor last fortnight and seen Labor boost its local majority by 50% to retain a seat at Wednesbury last week, the "reeling blow" that Lady Megan dealt was felt less by the Tories than by the once powerful party of her father and of the young Winston Churchill. With Laborite Lloyd George's election, the Liberal Party's representation in the House of Commons was reduced to a pitiful five members...
...Winston cigarette pitch (they "taste good like a cigarette should'') has effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...
...viruses that attack the central nervous system, causing encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Many of these viruses-which scientists have classified in two distinct families labeled "A" and "B"-have defied the efforts of virologists and immunologists to devise protective vaccines. Now Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Winston H. Price reports what appears to be a major breakthrough in the war against the encephalitides. The technique depends on family similarity: immunity against two or three members of the B virus family, it appears, gives immunity against the rest of their deadly...
...Americans use it because of their fashion for using long words they don't understand and rejecting short words like poor, which they consider mildly improper." It was. in short, just one more example of American "pretentious illiteracy." Added Lord Conesford: "How would it have been if Sir Winston Churchill, instead of saying, 'Give us the tools and we will finish the job,' had said, 'Donate us the implements and we shall finalize the assignment...