Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...
...dumpy, round-faced Grace, Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York, last week roundly declared: "We are fighting for Christian civilization. I cannot use the phrase 'holy war,' for war in its own nature is always an expression of the sin of man. But without hesitation I speak of this as, for us, a righteous...
...sober theologian, a leader in the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, with many friends in the U. S. One friend, Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, lately returned from a long stay in England. Dr. Niebuhr drafted, and some of his colleagues rewrote, a statement in which, this week, the Archbishop of York's position was strongly echoed, over the signatures of 33 of the nation's most influential Protestants...
...immured nearly two years ago in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for his leadership of un-Nazified Confessional pastors. Pastor Niemöller, who was a U-boat commander in World War I, offered the Fatherland his services in World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). His offer was refused. Last week Pastor Niemöller's second offer to fight was rejected, by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder himself...
...gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...