Word: rev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rev. Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
Last month America, influential Jesuit weekly, announced a Bias Contest, with cash prizes for readers who found the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in a month's reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest...
Last week Dr. Groves gathered together in Chapel Hill, N. C. 125 educators, ministers, doctors and lawyers from 1 8 States for a conference on Conservation of Marriage and the Family. Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, of the National Catholic Welfare Council, said marriage was a divine institution not to be profaned by human meddling. But other delegates declared that colleges and even high schools must give young people "scientific preparation for marriage and parenthood...
...Moscow-although Roman Catholics were not then aware of their whereabouts. In 1922, within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered a U. S. Jesuit, director general of his Papal Relief Mission in Russia, to "seek and find" the body of Andre Bobola. That Jesuit was Rev. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, today the stocky, white-haired vice president of Georgetown University, founder and regent of its excellent School of Foreign Service...
...Sunnybrook Farm a Shirley Temple song-&-dance, Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life a story of burlesque shows. But last week FTC charged Grand National Films with "unfair competition" in releasing a love story under the name In His Steps, after the 1896 religious story of that name by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon which has sometimes outsold every book but the Bible...