Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail with both hands. His manner was cozy. "We've all been here a long time," he confided, "and I feel I have come to know you well." Then he began buttering up: "In this sanctuary of justice, a holy place, to me second only to a church, I see you not as just twelve ladies and gentlemen. I see you strong, resolute and courageous soldiers of justice...
Last week, some 60 devotees-teenagers to greybeards-from 17 states had arrived at the converted CCC barracks near the Trapp Farm for the first of four summer "Sing Weeks." They paid from $70 to $90 apiece for ten days' board & room and the chance to study church music and folk songs with the Trapps and their music director, Father Franz Wasner, who is also the family chaplain...
...most resounding byline on the Anglophobe Chicago Tribune belongs to British-born John Lucius Astley-Cock. Now 74, bushy-browed, patrician Astley-Cock has been, among many things, a Cambridge University athlete, linguist, Shakespearean scholar, psychologist and church organist. At the Trib, where he has worked since 1932, his nominal title is assistant education and religion editor. But he has done his most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling...
...Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., 1948 was a record year. The new, enlarged edition (1,008 three-column pages) of the Official Catholic Directory shows that there are now 26,718,343 Roman Catholics in the U.S. (including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands)-a 642,646 increase over 1947. A record of 117,130 converts was made last year...
Three years later, his first philosophical book, The Religious Philosophy of Kant, was published, while he was working for his licentiate in theology. At the same time, he became a preacher in Strasbourg's Church of St. Nicholas. "Preaching was a necessity of my being," he wrote in his autobiography.-"I felt it as something wonderful that I was allowed to address a congregation every Sunday about the deepest questions of life." In 1902 he was made a curate of the church...