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Word: drivingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Nothing to Shout About | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...typewriters. But the bald, cheerful man who presided over this well-ordered confusion last week wore a clerical collar. From his command post in an old brownstone mansion near London's Victoria Station, the Rev. Frank Cecil Tyler was directing the "Mission to London"-the biggest evangelical drive the Church of England had ever held in a single diocese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in England | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

First goal of the drive is to get Londoners to turn out for eight consecutive nights of revival meetings to be held in every local parish, beginning next week. Volunteers are assigned to 120 centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in England | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

British Roman Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in England | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Money raised in the drive will be used to build dormitories and recreational facilities, and to supply special funds for research, library, and scholarships for Law School students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Drive Gets Large Boost | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

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