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Frank Buchman was born 58 years ago in Pennsburg of a Pennsylvania Dutch stilling family. He went to Muhlenberg College, Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, became a Lutheran pastor. Doing welfare work for Lutheran boys at Overbrook, Pa., he quarreled with trustees of his hospice, went to England with a bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Denver's Dam | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

When she arrived in Manhattan last week, after a trip from Lake Constance, Switzerland, which has taken almost ten months, the monster Dornier flying boat DO-X (pronounced: dough-icks) stirred and surprised a city which had long ceased to be impatient for her arrival. The deep vehemence of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Dough-Icks | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Next June the last group of such undergraduates join the ranks and already the ruffied relations are smoothing. Mr. Bingham has all along showed his interest in stilling the seething waters and something tangible in the nature of renewed relations is promised for the near future. His patient efforts should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

Leading banks went to the help of the Government with a loan of a million dollars, which went some way toward stilling the storm. A "funded crown"- an imitation of the German rentenmark ("real value" mark)-was introduced by the Government to enable the money market to remain open in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Panic, Peace | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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