Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Swedish Church Council took Gustaf's advice. "If they don't come to church, the church will have to go to them," said Bishop Aulen of Strangnas. The Church Council thereupon voted to establish three "sports priests"-young men whose active interest in sport matches their devotion to church...
Father's Pain. His interest began with a pain in his father's foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...
...show that it had the interest of small business at heart, the N.A.M. chose a small businessman, Wallace F. Bennett, as its next president. He succeeds Big Businessman Morris Sayre, president of Corn Products Refining Co. A friendly, easy-talking man of 50, Bennett began learning about business early. During high school and college he worked summers in his father's Salt Lake City paint and varnish company. He likes to quote his father's credo: "No transaction of any kind is any good unless both sides profit from...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
...rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse is not a matter of any great concern, except to us, but in the interest of distinguishing between ornithological prodigy and editorial error, we respectfully submit this correction...