Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subsistence-level farming, they fear any experiment as a possible short cut to starvation; accustomed to being victimized by landowners and loan sharks, they deeply distrust any help offered with seemingly altruistic motives. Their attitude has always been: "If a farm agent knows some better way of farming, why isn't he busy making money at it instead of telling us about...
Last April, 20 of the 220-member congregation asked the Orange County Presbytery, to set up a second Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill. Pastor Jones calmly agreed. "I fully realize," he said, "that my preaching isn't along the needs of many persons here." A ten-man board, set up by the alarmed presbytery, began to investigate the Chapel Hill church, with the power to remove both pastor and officers if necessary. Pastor Jones took a year's leave-doing social work in Tennessee with a philanthropic foundation. But he comes back to Chapel Hill to preach every...
After the intermission, the second act began with an explanation of psychic powers by an "independent expert," Professor Sanjean, owner, trainer, and confidante of "Emir, the only dog in the whole world who can read your mind." Sanjean told the audience that the "only reason telepathy isn't more widely recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord...
...should know because I'm a doctor." "Well then," returned Tarah, "someone in your party is sick. That person next to you is your patient, and you're worried about her recovery. Will you not have the sincerity to admit it?" The woman next to Mary rose: "No, it isn't true. As a matter of fact, I'm a doctor myself...
Cheerleaders are certainly not a cure-all for our basketball woes, but they are a step in the right direction. Attendance and receipts will not suffer from such a move and it will involve little or no expense. This isn't really such an earthshaking proposition to imagine and it isn't imperative to continue the program next year if it proves unsatisfactory. All we ask is a trial for the few remaining games. After all, how can one condemn something before it is tried...