Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said "Marse Henry's" old paper: "We find that with all his faults we still think Mr. Roosevelt is a great man who may prove greatly daring in the face of the world menace...
...only German missions were cut off completely from home bases. Other Protestants then raised more than $2,000,000 to keep the missions going, returned them to the German societies after the war. Today's problem is far larger. Beyond the need for immediate aid, U. S. churchmen face the prospect that an Axis victory would halt missionary work in colonies Germany may then dominate. Hitler believes in short shrift for missionaries. Said he in Mein Kampf: "Mission education in Africa is based on the absurd notion of making lawyers out of half apes...
...held their atmospheres. The telescope and spectroscope both clearly show the moon to be a dead world, without air or water. Having no atmospheric muffler, the moon swings through a temperature change of several hundred degrees between the lunar day and night. Mercury, innermost of the planets, keeps one face turned always toward the sun. That side is extremely hot-about 750°-and the perpetually dark side must be correspondingly cold...
Instead of casting a familiar Hollywood face in the role of Young (Spencer Tracy was considered, then rejected because of his frequent appearances as a Catholic priest), Zanuck "discovered" Dean Jagger, an able veteran of the Broadway stage, whose cinema appearances have been sporadic and inconspicuous. Jagger brings to his cumbersome, lengthy part such convincing dignity as to relegate to comparative minority the conventional romantic activity of Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, two harassed lovers who string along on the westward trek...
...other House teams will see their first action on the next day with Winthrop scheduled to face Leverett and Dunster meeting Kirkland. The tackle season continues through November 14 with games every Wednesday and Thursday at 3:30 o'clock...