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...Religious life should and will be integrated in a new World Brotherhood which should and will absorb or replace existing sects...
...long as his base of operations was the stained and gloomy pile of masonry hard by Prospect Park. "Look at it this way," says he. "Brooklyn draws a million people. Milwaukee draws two and a quarter million. Results: 1) they can pay their players more; 2) they can absorb more farm club losses; 3) they can have more front-office talent; 4) they can buy more bonus players. The momentum is Milwaukee's. Obviously, we have deteriorated into a noncontending ball club. I decided that the thing to do was get my new stadium and get in a competitive...
...academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture. Signet is used more as a pleasant eating club than as an intellectual society by many people who go there. Today, a large percentage of its membership belongs to final clubs, and a number of the rest appears to desire entrance; as a result, there is a strong tendency...
...Broadway stage hopeful helped turn Costigan into a TV playwright. In 1953 he ground out four original TV plays and six adaptations, then took off for a year in France and Ireland. Three times since then he has "gone home" to the country of his ancestors to absorb "the tragic beauty of the land, dark and sweet and green...
...week, and the average-grade steer brought about 28? v. 21.7 the same week in 1957. This was good news for beef raisers, glum news for beefeaters. Each 1½ boost will bring almost a 2? rise in the price of dressed beef. Although packers, processors and retailers will absorb much of the increase, some of it will fall on the consumer. Rising beef prices are one of the reasons that the consumer price index, up .2% in February, will probably continue...