Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...
Texas to the Congo. It was as simple as the first: to publish a speller that would include pronunciation, meaning and usage, with exercises to match. The new speller and workbook swept the nation. Over the years, every schoolchild in Texas and Alabama, and half of those in ten other states were learning their spelling and vocabulary simultaneously. The Webster books found their way into such big cities as New York, to the Philippines and Alaska, and via missionaries to China, India, and the Belgian Congo...
...willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride, chief owner of the A.A.C.'s high-stepping Cleveland Browns put the new picture in focus: "Some . . . players who got $10,000 and $12,000 this year will be playing for half that-or less-next season...
...subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know...
...monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo, near Foggia in southeast Italy, 62-year-old Padre Pio now rises at 2 each morning, prays for three hours and begins Mass at 5:30. Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a half to say it because he often groans, weeps or passes into a state of ecstasy. After Mass he begins hearing confessions of the streams of men & women who wait through the night at the church door in all kinds of weather. Confessions are finished at 1 in the afternoon; then...