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Word: furnishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they decided that ministers could make country life more interesting if they knew more about its practical phases. Said Dean Trimble: "Since the church is the only institution in some [rural] communities, we should have men who would be able to wrestle not only with the religious problems but furnish some leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: School for Country Parsons | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Stressing the vital importance of the CATS mission, Brigadier-General Bryan said that Civil Affairs officers have to furnish the follow-through to the Army's combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CATS OFFICERS TO JOIN A.M.G | 7/6/1945 | See Source »

...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR PRODUCTION: One Salvaged Is One Built | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Selective Clientele. In Brooklyn, N.Y., S. Baron, ready for a vacation, wrote to a camp: "Please furnish information regard ing weekend facilities at your summer camp." The resort: the Army's Camp Shanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 25, 1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Chinese Government be asked to furnish arms to a rebel government whose primary allegiance it has every reason to believe is to a foreign power? No government in the world could be rightly expected to do that. The Communists cannot be given full recognition in China until they are willing to give up their separate army. That they have never been, and, I think, never will be, willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OUR ALLY CHINA | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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