Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left the Zeitung in charge of Editor Kendall Foss, with the three-man board looking over his shoulder. Said Foss: "A satisfactory solution." But the argument had hardly helped the paper's prestige. By week's end, the Zeitung's circulation (542,000) had dropped...
...petitioner was a sandy-haired Dutch Protestant named Henri A. Robbe Groskamp. No scholar, Groskamp first became interested in Christ's trial through reading religious books in his mother's library while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...
...seven days, the 1,200-odd representatives of 40 U.S. and Canadian denominations talked and listened to each other. In the end, they firmly rejected parochial schools. The council recommended: 1) that Protestant parochial schools be discouraged as "a serious threat" to public education and democracy; 2) that the cultural and nonsectarian aspects of religion be taught through such subjects as history and literature in the public school curriculum; 3) that weekday religious education on a "released time" basis be continued...
...next two days, Farnsworth led the big board in the number of shares traded, and dropped to 1⅞. At week's end, Farnsworth stockholders had still to approve the deal. But those who had known about it could have-and may well have-cleaned up by selling Farnsworth short. The SEC was "looking into the matter...
...enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...