Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the invasion, Norway's Church had largely lost touch with the common people, and congregations were composed mainly of old folk. Young people were increasingly critical of the Church's value. They questioned whether the clergy, to whom the State often assigned the choicest farms in rural areas, were worth their salt. Now all Norway, indeed all Scandinavian Lutheranism, knows the stuff of which Norway's clergy is made. The Church, standing firmly for the dignity of human freedom, has regained its lost prestige. Of the Church's clergymen, only 64 still function under Nazi...
...churches, which own some of the choicest blocks of tax-free real estate in the country, feel a cold chill coursing along the pocketbook nerve. The Louisville City Council plans to place all church-owned real estate used for business purposes on the tax rolls. Several million dollars' worth of property, owned mostly by Baptists and Roman Catholics, will be affected. The owners will have to go to court if they wish to protest the assessments...
...made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing 20,000 of the choicest, most tenderhearted names in England, found he could have his own motor, furnish the vicarage like a house in London's swank West End, spend more than 20 times his Vicar's miserable stipend of ?400 yearly...
...weeks-highest pay in radio. General Foods last week meditated giving Jell-O to Kate Smith, shunting Grape-Nuts Products to Benny. Benny was elaborately unconcerned. In an unprecedented deal last year he persuaded NBC to give him, not General Foods, a personal ten-year option on the choicest half-hour in radio (Sun. 7 p.m. E.W.T.). He can take Grape-Nuts Products or leave them alone...
...series of annual exhibitions to provide a cross section of the finest painting and sculpture now being produced in the U.S., the Museum did its choosing without regard for previous reputation, wound up with 200 items that proved that modern U.S. art is sprouting luxuriantly, that some of its choicest sprouts come from west of the Rockies...