Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...enlarging the bloc itself? . . . Every teacher in your public school should now be sought out-every professor on your college faculty-every minister in your town-every legislator in your state and representing your state at Washington-every colleague on your board-every parishioner in your congregation who can read serious discussion-every lawyer, physician, club woman, thoughtful business man, political leader -these should be sought out and enlisted as readers of The Christian Century...
When Minnie Maddern Fiske, animal-loving actress, read about the fight she was in New Haven lecturing to Yale students. Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
European smokers last week attentively read press despatches announcing that the German dye trust had developed a combustible called bonalin for lighters. Bonalin, said the news, would not smoke, smell or explode. The new fuel comes in a tube, like toothpaste. When squeezed into the lighter it becomes a clear combustible liquid...
Reception. The morning of the announcement, jumbled accounts of the plan appeared in Chicago dailies. Excited students read of it in their Chicago Maroon which front-paged a large picture of President Hutchins. Those students who grasped the "no examinations" feature and at once began to celebrate were premature. Not for some time can the plan become operative...
...meet him. Said Dr. Guerry to Dr. Erskine: "I asked one gentleman if he were Dr. Erskine and he said emphatically 'I should say not.' I asked a second man and he said, 'I wish I were.' That shows at least one man has read your books." "Yes, it does," said Dr. Erskine. "But which...