Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students, ordinary citizens and new Americans work in the project, either full or part-time. When a group of professors' wives started the Window Shop in 1939, the first displaced persons were already entering the country. The non-profit enterprise opened in a room above the Oxford Grille on Church Street; there the early victims of the war could work and draw a small salary...
Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...
Dissonance. In Kirkwood, Mo., the St. Louis Police Quartet finished up their recital at the First Presbyterian Church, found a parking ticket on their...
Citing recent statements of both Stalin and the Pope to back his thesis, Reinhold Niebuhr, noted professor at the Union Theological Seminary, cautioned a standing-room-only congregation at Memorial Church yesterday of the dangers of "spiritual wickedness in high places...
Stalin, said Niebuhr, has maintained that all communist actions are correct because they are founded on absolute truths derived from science. At the other extreme, Pope Plus XII stated two weeks ago that the actions of the Church had validity because they were based on spiritual and never on worldly considerations...