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Word: duns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those asked to cancel spring engagements are Sidney Lovett, chaplain of Yale University, and the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C. Dun had been invited often in past years to appear at the Church, but had never until this year been able to accept a date...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Spring Preachers Asked To Cancel Engagements | 10/8/1954 | See Source »

Director of Research Dun & Bradstreet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Other businessmen were talking in an equally optimistic vein. In Manhattan, a Dun & Bradstreet survey of 1,126 executives showed that some 48% expect an increase in net sales over 1953 during 1954's fourth quarter; only 22% forecast a sales drop. On Wall Street, the stock market reflected the businessmen's optimism. Aircraft stocks, which have led the market with a 75% rise in the past six months, climbed higher still. Six months ago, many a trader wondered if the Dow-Jones industrial average would ever hit 300. Last week the industrials pushed up 2.87 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The New Order | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...Pretend (Sat. 1:35 p.m., CBS). Begins its 25th year with an Indian fantasy, The Dun Horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), spectacled Father Young, 41, became rector of St. Dun-stan's, the "mother church of the East End," six months ago and lost no time startling as many of his 19,000 parishioners as possible with his Americanophile movie-fanning. When he is not studying the King James version of the Bible, he is likely to be deep in the pages of Variety, the bible of U.S. show business. "We have a good deal in common, the church and the entertainment world, in one sense at least," he says. "We must both proclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Clerical Movie Fan | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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