Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized job...
...vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced its debt substantially...
They Live by Night (RKO Radio) is a sleeper, i.e., a low-budget job that surprises its makers by being a hit. It has had a delayed release in the U.S. after making a reputation for itself in England. Except for its sentimental view of crooks, it is a well-made little crime movie flavored with poetic young love...
...World War II while its ships and men were still being sent to the bottom. The Navy decided on not one history, but two. One was to be a popular narrative told largely in the words of the men and officers who did the fighting. Tapped for the job by Navy Secretary Knox in 1943 was Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N.R., in civilian life a newsman and prolific writer of children's books. The other was planned as a formal history based on all available information-"unofficial" to allow for criticism but backed to the hilt by all the resources...
...pace of journalism, seldom pauses for reflection or criticism. Its eyewitness reports of the Pacific slugging match are graphic, often moving; but except for interpolations of hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle in Mindoro Strait: "It looked like hell upside down...