Word: bade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...academic mind in war time--in America, exactly as in England and Germany. I pointed out that the officers and teachers of Harvard University a good majority of them, were leading the van of war hysteria, and wild emotion which ill became what is accepted as trained intellgence. I bade the students in these hectic times not to take their professors too seriously, but to regard their words and deeds with a healthy skepticism. The college faculties were almost unanimously wrong in the last war, and are in all probability equally wrong in this...
...Wesley bade his U.S. followers use the printing press too. Here it worked still better. Backbone of its success: circuit riders who stuffed their saddlebags with Methodist literature, supplemented their slim stipends by doubling as book peddlers. Methodism's strength in the Middle West dates directly to libraryless days when preachers' saddlebags were a valued source of reading matter. Every minister was also a subscription agent, and by 1830 the Methodist Christian Advocate had the largest circulation of any U.S. periodical -30,000 (its 1941 circulation: 275,000). It grew so rapidly that the post office...
...Lenten pastoral of the Most Rev. Conrad Gröber, Archbishop of Freiburg, which German authorities had suppressed. "The schism of the German people is undeniable," the prelate declared, adding that instead of bringing unity the war has made the exclusion of confirmed Catholics more evident. And then he bade his flock reject passive resignation as against "conscience and ... the example of Christ" and urged them to resist Nazi efforts to teach their children anti-Christian doctrines...
After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...
...Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained...