Word: englande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council for Religious Affairs. "These are full-blooded Marxists, of course," said Visser 't Hooft. "But some of these atheist supervisors have developed a real liking for their job and show a deep interest in church affairs and history. After all, there may be found in England and Sweden and elsewhere government functionaries in charge of church affairs who are agnostics as well...
...After that," said Warsley, "a flood of mail came in-6,000 to 8,000 letters. We were in business." Warsley (Seton Hall '24) opened his classroom magazine to the avalanche of unsolicited subscriptions, in a few years was sending out the magazine to subscribers in England, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Rhodesia, Ceylon, India and Tonga, as well...
Ever since the time of Napoleon, the idea of a tunnel under the English Channel has fascinated the French, and to a lesser degree the insular English. Bonaparte beamed at the thought of his dragoons taking the dry road to England; Queen Victoria thought of a tunnel also, but as nothing more than an expensive, but foolproof, seasick remedy. "You may tell the French engineer," she said when one set of plans was brought to her attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name...
...Channel dig was back in the news. After two years of underwater testing and 56,000 interviews with Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists prepared to announce, in a $700,000 report, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, onetime head of the Foreign Office, and now co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, indicated that the 36-mile rail tunnel under the Channel would cost over $300 million, could bring in $26 million in revenue annually...
...College placed a winner in five of the eight regions, each of which is made up of about four states and is awarded four scholarships. It also gained three of the four New England Regions awards, since Darnton competed from the Harvard region, rather than from his home region...