Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, it is a great help to discover a magazine which reports the truly significant happenings in religion and the heroic fight of the Church in countries which are far worse off than we are. Certainly the articles in TIME over the last few months have given me-a layman-a far better idea of what the Church is doing in this troubled world than I ever had before...
...good; the lines had set an unprecedented record of 15 months' operation without an accident. Since the change there have been four fatal airline accidents, a fifth in which an airliner was destroyed. ¶ Last week pilots and operators had documentation for what had seemed to many a layman a wild charge: that some of the accidents, if not all, were due to CAA's reorganization. The documentation came from the new Civil Aeronautics Board itself. In its analytical report of the crash of a United Air Liner on Bountiful Peak, northeast of Salt Lake City, last November...
Duffy spoke, four Catholic bishops signed a letter sponsored by Catholic Layman Michael Williams approving the Lend-Lease Bill. Six other bishops declined to sign...
Budget-porers looked hard at such items as $90,000 for hothouses in the Washington Botanic Gardens; $849,700 for completion of the National Archives Building, which to the layman's eye has seemed completed since it was occupied in 1935; the addition of 335 new employes to the Railroad Retirement Board; addition of 1,469 new workers to the Veterans' Administration (the State Department got only 35 additional employes). Sniffing such apparent piecrust, citizens could well ask: Where is the sacrifice? The broad outlines of the Budget were simple, partly because the size of the figures made...
...Taylor Vaughan of Richmond, Va. (Doubleday; $3). Son of the late Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughan, who was not only a pioneer allergist but also the man who brought the first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics, the list of things to which people are allergic is almost endless...