Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long range goal for the group, the directors hope to establish a permanent home for repertory theatre in the Boston area. This season will close on June 27, and the group will reopen in September...
This first state-wide scholarship for South Carolina students was given in the "hope that other Harvard men will see the need for National Scholarships" in southeastern states. Helmus commented, "Boys everywhere should have the opportunity to go to Harvard if they so desire and are eligible...
...Order Conference's resolution, wrote Graham, is a stand "to puzzle and dishearten those who expected something more worthy of the cause of peace to which the delegates were dedicated ... In its silences and evasions, in its carefully phrased ambiguities and obvious inconsistencies, this would-be message of hope is a ghastly monument of abandonment. Its high words about the love of Christ and its vision of a world community willed by God sound fearfully hollow against its deep silence on the religious issue-not only on the mainland of China but wherever Communism rules...
There are notable and heroic exceptions. One pastor and his wife, both university graduates, abandoned hope of further academic schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education on his own. rather than undergo the pagan ceremony, is now working as an unskilled laborer in a cement plant...
...commercial oil has ever been found in Spain or Spanish possessions, geologists are almost unanimously optimistic. They think there is oil under the sands of the Spanish Sahara and Ifni (Spanish West Africa), and also in some areas of Spain itself. The bill also cheered U.S. businessmen, who hope that other foreign investments will be welcomed in Spain if drilling programs successfully bring in both dollars...