Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has any deep religious significance. All it means is that people like to play games. The Bible is not a game." ¶The U.S. will have 70,000 new churches and synagogues costing $6 billion in the next ten years, predicted New York's Dr. C. Harry Atkinson of the National Council of Churches. In the same decade, he said, 12,500 other church buildings will be built at a cost of more than a billion dollars. ¶ Biblical statements about heaven and hell should not be taken too seriously because they may express only "opinions current...
Freshman heavies: Captain Honry Jordan, stroke; Stewart Hussey, seven; Geoffrey Locke, sex; Howard Dickinson, five; Charles Atkinson, four; John Eager, three; John Ellefson, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Reed Bement, coxswain
...went ahead, 11 to 6, midway in the first half. Rebounding put Straus ahead, but Wigg came back on two side push shots by Jack Bitzer, and a lay-up and foul by Dwan to lead, 13 to 11. Straus tied the score at 13 to 13 on Charley Atkinson's lay-up, but Wigg soon went ahead, where it stayed, holding Straus even in the second half after a 23-16 halftime lead...
...Brooks Atkinson, for example, confessed in his [New York] Times review . . . that a dialogue on sin between a psychiatrist and a priest was quite beyond him. And he wondered what all the play's gloominess, all its brooding over guilt, was about . . . After all, Mr. Atkinson implied, religion is meant to make people 'happy...
...Fort Atkinson...