Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reckoned that the properties involved had been worth $41,900,000. Among the chief "cultural aggressors": the twelve Protestant "Christian Colleges," run by the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; the Peiping Union Medical College and Changsha's "Yale in China," which were beacon lights of modern medicine in China; and the Catholic schools and mission churches that have served 3,500,000 Chinese Catholics. U.S. religious bodies had supported and operated 504 hospitals, 905 dispensaries, 31 leprosariums, 40 nursing schools, 320 orphanages. Their mission schools had trained scores of thousands of Chinese, including many officials...
...hasn't made very much of his subject, Author Mergendahl deserves a mild cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
...Last week Grants's two long-distance lines buzzed with calls from all over the U.S. Most of its 17 bars all proudly displayed ore samples. Advertisements for mining machinery and Geiger counters poured in on Clyne A. Bailey, editor of the weekly Grants Beacon (circ...
...travels up & down the street of that name, a famous one in Boston, in a narrative streetcar named Desire, or Social Betterment, or Motherhood, or Good Business, or God Bless America-the name changes so often that a passenger is never quite sure. On Joy Street's fashionable Beacon Hill rise lives Emily Field, a young society woman with "charm and vivacity enough to hold her own at a Hasty Pudding Club dance or a Beck [an uppercrust Harvard dormitory] spread." Woe is Emily; these enviable talents are spent on a proper Bostonian whom she married "to be peaceful...
...Capp's journeys to New York are basically vacation trips. When it is time to begin producing fresh chapters in the lives of Li'l Abner and his colleagues, he retires to a big, handsomely furnished apartment on Boston's Beacon Street. One of its back rooms-a bare-walled hideaway fitted up with three drawing boards-is the workroom in which Capp and two longtime assistants, Andy Amato and Walter Johnston, grind out the installments of their never-ending serial...