Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the humidity, the annual event attracted many runners and spectators to the Newell Boathouse starting line Olympic champion Tom Courtney was among the spectators, although ineligible to race...
...ELLEN C. COURTNEY Chicago...
Indeed, said Jesuit John Courtney Murray, "the first church-related school [founded by Origen in the 3rd century] came into being in answer to an inner need of the human spirit as it was caught in the clashing encounter between Christianity and all the knowledge symbolized by the Alexandrian Museum. This encounter is permanently joined, for 'the Museum' is a permanent institution, and so too is the Church . . . What the human spirit endowed with Christian faith permanently needs is that these two knowledges should be related in a universe of intellectual order . . . The Christian school therefore undertakes...
...track fans in the stands at Turku, Finland stirred unhappily at the announcement: both California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians...
...imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...