Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with the Government hogging all the decent metal...
...catch me fighting' if there's a war," the lads used to say to me. The wretched lodgings so many of them lived in, the high rents, the lack of employment rasperated them and they had no patience with a social system that prevented them from living a decent life in security...
...military men, economists, production bosses; capital, labor-all were ready for orders. The night was drawing on; the lights were out. The U. S. was asking Franklin Roosevelt: Watchman, what of the night? Politics was dead as ever politics can be. A dying Congress frittered and fidgeted, eagerly awaiting decent burial and January's rebirth. The U. S. promised Franklin Roosevelt the moon and sixpence, if only...
...residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
...study of the forces and the nature of the Protestant ministry and its professional training. We now have, in place of guess-work, reliable information as to these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been drawing up a list of accredited theological schools, which have academic equipment and standards of decent graduate school level. The attempt to establish such standards has, of course, aroused resentment in those quarters where piety is cultivated at the expense of sober learning. Nevertheless, if a church is to go through the motions of giving its ministry an academic training, there is no hallway house...