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Word: 157th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every year the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 members) elects a Moderator-a largely honorary but distinctly honorific post. In Minneapolis last week the church's 157th annual assembly chose tall, grey, bespectacled William Blakeman Lampe, pastor of St. Louis' big (1,500 members) West Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Moderator | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...nationalities, newsmen, wives and secretaries of the delegates. To the Florida, Zaragozana or Paris went the visitors to dine, then back to the Nacional for moonlight dancing or to any pack-jammed little Cuban cabaret. One night in Cathedral Square a Spanish dancing show celebrated, a day late, the 157th birthday of South America's Hero No. 1, Simon Bolivar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Solidarity Has Triumphed | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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