Word: samaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cunard's "Scythia" and "Samaria" were former iuxury liners which had been pressed into service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec...
...Samaria's" last trip, where the official paper was a dull sheet called "The Link," a junto led by some energetic Princetonians decided to put out a rival. They infiltrated the mimeographing room one night when the "Link" staff was carousing, helped themselves to a couple of thousand pieces of mimeographing paper, and printed up a parody number called "The Missing Link...
...troopship Samaria unloaded 980 Army veterans at Halifax last week. At Brussels, the last 55 Canadian soldiers on the Continent (except for 44 deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...
...heresy" with which your reviewer charges me was enunciated by Jesus himself. He told the woman of Samaria, "Salvation comes from the Jews"; when all Israel had repented and turned again to strict Judaism, then according to the prophecy in Zachariah, which he plainly conceived himself to be fulfilling', the Gentiles too would be proselytized and flock to Jerusalem to worship. Yes, certainly, the disciples went into all the world to preach the Gospel: but to their fellow Jews, scattered in every country from Portugal to India: for Jesus had roundly condemned the practice of actively proselytizing the Gentiles...
...children, who had virtually overwhelmed the rest of the Samaria's 687 passengers during an anxious eleven-day trip, were the vanguard of 32,000 British children whom Mr. Field's committee hopes eventually to place in U. S. homes. Best hope of getting the others out still lay in the British merchant marine. Though the Hennings Bill (passed last week but not yet countersigned by Hitler) has granted permission to U. S. ships to go into combat zones to evacuate children, it carries the proviso that a grant of safe conduct must first be obtained from...