Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talent for organization. His 4,677-member flock is broken down into 85 sub-flocks of 20 to 30 families, each under the spiritual supervision of a "shepherd" who is an elder of the church. An elaborate system of 12,000 cross-reference cards lists church members by "talents," age groups and professions. He assigns one of his three assistant pastors to devote full time to attracting and converting new members, another to keeping church members jumping with activity seven days a week.* A major source of pride to the congregation is Dr. Evans' team of five vested choirs...
...says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which he sometimes peopled incongruously with tiny, ineffectual figures dressed in the gay fashions of his own time...
Beneath the remains of classical Athens, the diggers found two Mycenaean tombs hacked in the living rock. The tombs contained three skeletons, two long bronze swords, other weapons and delicately wrought ornaments of the Age of Bronze. Judging by these remains, the diggers believe that the tombs date from 1400 B.C. At that period, ancient Greece was not yet Greece, for the real Greeks had not swept down in numbers from Thessaly in the north. Athens was probably a small city subject to great Mycenae, itself an outpost of the strange, semi-Egyptian civilization which centered on the island...
...heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic Age...