Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, helped raise $55,000 for a clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...
...festival, which came to an end this week, was a cultural rather than a popular or financial success. Hutchins had set the spiritual tone of the gathering: "The major concern of thoughtful citizens today is the lack of serious consideration for the application ... of the basic human standards best represented in the humanities-philosophy, religion, ethics-and the social sciences...
Last week came the showdown. For two days, the tellers counted the proxy ballots, while Ward and Fairchild eyed each other tensely. Finally, enough votes were in for Ward to know that he was defeated (1,191,217 to 622,186). Sherman Fairchild's first act was to pick Richard Boutelle, the plant boss whom Ward had ordered out of the plant a week ago for supporting Fairchild, as the new president of the company. Fairchild would hold no office other than director. But this time he thought the president would pay some attention to his ideas...
...rods," souped-up racers built from jalopies, have been an American phenomenon since the '20s, when used cars first became available in big supply. After World War II, which choked off the sport during gasoline rationing, it came back stronger than ever...
...posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy" Sheean. His 1947 "formula" did not satisfy him long. Lead, Kindly Light is the story of a new conviction that came to take its place: the conviction of an immanent and transcendent God who cannot be explained away. The man who gave him his conviction: India's late great Mahatma Gandhi...