Word: schweitzer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Schweitzer...
...BARONDES Hollywood, Calif. ' Sir: I nominate, not for Man of the Year but for man of the era, Albert Schweitzer. He has taught us anew that man does indeed live by the spirit, and that we can all live purposeful lives in an age which Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin have characterized as decadent...
...under the influence of Friedrich Naumann, long a leader in the German Liberal movement. Heuss met pretty Elly Knapp in the Naumann movement ("If Naumann had turned Buddhist," she said later, "I would have followed him into that, too"). Heuss and Elly were married by their close friend Albert Schweitzer, later to become the great humanitarian missionary and philosopher (TiME, July...
TIME'S cover of Albert Schweitzer is a masterpiece. Ernest Hamlin Baker is to be highly commended...
...Albert Schweitzer, musician, medico and missionary, sailed for Europe en route to his jungle home, leaving a word of consolation for his sweltering New York hosts: "Don't talk to me about humidity. There's no wind in Africa and sometimes we can see the palm trees stand for ten days without a single movement of their branches...