Word: instructed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...
...fact, the most interesting aspect of the Forum Edition's growth has been the variety of uses to which the films have been put. Several large city police forces, for example, are using "The American Cop" to help instruct rookie patrolmen. A manufacturing concern, which had originally acquired prints of all films dealing with foreign countries to provide background information for their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary...
Time for a Rally. Despite growing indications that they could not win with Candidate Truman,* some Democratic bigwigs decided that it was time to show some rallying strength behind him. In Maine, the state Democratic convention agreed, after some rumblings of dissent, to instruct its delegates to vote for the President. In Des Moines, the Democratic Midwest Conference (party chiefs from eight states) came out in support...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...
...Roman Catholics, of course, we do not believe in putting our findings into practice, but . . . we judge that we should be free to instruct less imaginative fellows who are not so morally restricted...