Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another surprise to Dottie was the number of would-be investors who enclosed money in their letters. Said she: "Cash money, I mean. It's a real tribute to the faith people have in TIME." One man from Hot Springs, Ark. enclosed a check for $200 and a note reading: "As an inveterate cookie gobbler, I'm interested to know whether you have any unsold shares of common stock lying around." From as far away as Norway and Australia came letters and cablegrams. Said Dottie: "I almost dropped dead when I got a cable from South Africa. Imagine...
ARMY" IST LIEUT. JAMES L. STONE, 30, of Pine Bluff, Ark.: Although wounded three times, he continued to fight until his platoon was overwhelmed. Even then, "his voice could still be heard faintly urging his men to carry on, until he lost consciousness...
...least 22 new orchestras have sprung up since last season. Among them: the Beaumont (Texas) Symphony (75 players), Savannah (Ga.) Symphony (68), Wartburg Community Symphony of Waverly, Iowa (65), La Porte (Ind.) Symphony (50), Ozarks-Clarksville Little Symphony of Clarksville, Ark...
...Rhode Island State and Riverdale, N.J.; Jerry W. Brougher of the University of Texas and Calvert, Texas; Charles J. Christenson of Cornell and Chicago; Jerome H. Clark, of Amherst and Darien, Conn.; Arthur P. Contas '52 of Chestnut Hill; William J. Dickson, of the University of Arkansas and Rogers, Ark.; James A. Fowler, of Oxford and Cambridge, and Hempstead Heights, England...
Dwight Eisenhower and his wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward...