Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heirs (from public utilities and real estate) was the second largest fortune *in the State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude...
Pattern for Error. The most eye-catching conclusion: "Everywhere we found freedom of worship. Even in Yugoslavia . . . churches were open and crowded. In Poland and Hungary religious instruction by priests is still compulsory in state schools. Nowhere has there been an official attempt to prevent people from worshiping as they please...
Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall...
Ever since a strike of Moslem students in 1912, chapel attendance at A.U.B. has been voluntary, but Christian, Moslem and Jew often worship together at the university services. When the spirit moved him (and in 25 years it often did), Bayard Dodge preached sermons to his students, could quote from Koran as well as Scripture. Dodge is proud that A.U.B.'s melting-pot of 50 nationalities and 20 religions has never boiled over...
...clock: Morning worship service. The Memorial Church. Special service for returning veterans and new students, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry. Chairman of the Board of Preachers. Each Sunday thereafter throughout the college year...