Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those nominated thus far are as follows: Luis Amescua, David Barnhouse, Norman Brooks, Sal Costa, Bernard Edison, Hartley Fleishman, John Greene, Alan Heimert, John B. Jones, Lawrence Klepper, Townsend J. Knight, Benjamin H. Lacy...
...referring to three of the University's most outstanding and revered teachers: the late George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, and Bliss Perry. Of this famed English department triumvirate, Professors Copeland and Perry and emeritus; sometimes "Copey," (who now asks, with feigned disgust "why do you keep the Copey legend alive?") gives one of his spectacular readings for the Freshman class...
Embarrassing Questions. Lawyer John Foster Dulles properly escaped his probing, and Fulbright questioned the qualifications of Congressmen Sol Bloom of New York and Charles Eaton of New Jersey only by implication. But he wanted to know why Delaware's John G. Townsend, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, rated the trip to London. Did Frank C. Walker, the former Democratic Postmaster General, have any experience in foreign affairs? The average age of the five, he mused, was over...
...Townsend notes that there is a difference between "the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the four Gospels," and "the practices of the organized Christian Church. These two have little in common besides their name." He traces the decline of the faith from the 4th Century, when it became a national religion under Constantine (who went forth "to slaughter his enemies inspired by the ecstatic vision of a blazing cross") through the Crusades (where "it had become firmly established that fire and rapine were acceptable means of propagating the faith") to the history of modern colonization ("unequal conflict...
Historian Townsend concludes: "There can be no peace" unless Christians become aware of "the wide chasm lying between their religious beliefs and practices...