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Word: corinth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nursed in the rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead. She put up her own $44,000 for equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Mousetrap | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...hospital had raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Mousetrap | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...AMAG report showed that five airfields were being "winterized," work had started on repairs to three stretches of highway, repairs had begun on port installations in Piraeus and Salonika, and work would soon begin on clearing the Corinth Canal (blocked by German demolitions since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE BATtLE FOR GREECE | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...months the Germans had been withdrawing their forces that dangled precariously through the Balkans into the Mediterranean islands. By this week the British, moving in after them from the south, had already recovered Greece's Peloponnesus, were working toward Corinth and Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (South): Return | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

Among the Glee Club selections will be the Bacchanale from "Belshazzar" by Handel, "The Defense of Corinth" by Elliot Carter '30, and "Tarheel Fantasy" by Melville Smith '20. The evening will end with the singing of "Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL SING AT POPS SUNDAY NIGHT | 5/5/1942 | See Source »

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