Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlet, In This Faith We Live, has a foreword by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps and the signatures of a good cross-section of government M.P.s. Early in 1947 members of the new group began to meet informally to discuss ways & means of injecting more practical Christianity into politics. Last November they sent a letter to the Times which drew such a response that they decided to publish the present twelve-page statement of faith...
...middle ground, between medical "free enterprise" and national health insurance, are the "voluntary insurance plans," such as the Blue Cross (hospitalization) and the Blue Shield (doctors' fees). At the Assembly they were represented by Dr. Paul R. Hawley, former medical director of the Veterans Administration. The Blue Cross and Shield, said Hawley, if properly developed and extended, can enable people to prepay their medical costs while avoiding the disadvantages of "socialized" medicine. As proof, he cited the rapid recent growth of the two plans. Together they have 37,500,000 members; Blue Shield has increased its membership...
Five months before the November Presidential elections, the College has a tendency toward a political creed of "Liberal Republicanism," a poll of a cross-section of the student body released yesterday by the Free Enterprise Society shows...
...invaded the waterfront, stayed to learn the tango, later carried it to the ballrooms of France. Transplanted, the tango retained its sad, metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed moviegoers how to do it when he tangoed his way to fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
...Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sam F. Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...