Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to forestall Encirclement in the Baltic, Führer Adolf Hitler invited Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia to conclude non-aggression pacts with Germany. Latvia and Estonia jumped at the chance. The other four countries reserved judgment until their foreign ministers had a chance to meet at Stockholm, agree on a common policy. Sharpest opposition to acceptance of the offer appeared in Norway...
...three-hour test roamed the fields of science, literature, economics, English, history, in unusual fashion. Examinees were asked not to display their knowledge but to draw deductions from sets of given facts. In a test of their literary judgment, for example, they were given a poem to interpret, Wallace Stevens' Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock...
...suit against the Archbishop and the corporation. Said their counsel: "It is said, the Gauls feared only one thing, that Heaven might fall on their heads. Well! That is very much what happened." But the suit was not lost. St. Etienne parish acknowledged the debt, consented in court that judgment be recorded against it. Last week, while the six devout plaintiffs awaited notice of their restoration to the Church, all that remained was to find $261,939.83 to pay off the notes...
Last week a judgment for $250,000 plus $132,756,78 in interest, stood against the Benedictine Society of Latrobe, Pa.-corporate name of the community of St. Vincent Archabbey. Decade ago the late Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, who had established a Catholic University in Peiping, China, borrowed $250,000 from Peiping's National City Bank at 7% (legal Chinese rate), for repairs and new buildings. Archabbot Stehle died, control of the university passed from the Benedictines to the Society of the Divine Word, and the loan went unpaid. In 1936, the bank brought suit against the Benedictines, who countered...
...important and meaty modern works for chorus and orchestra were given first U. S. hearings. The first was a smoldering, wrath-&-judgment Old-Testament oratorio, Watchman, What of the Night? by James Gutheim Heller, rabbi of Cincinnati's aged Plum Street Temple. A chorus of 600 children helped Soprano Helen Jepson sing the second: a complicated Magnificat by German-born Hermann Hans Wetzler, who once played the organ in Manhattan's Trinity Church...