Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
Even conservative, Finnish-born Jules Andre, a top ski clothes designer, was showing a fancy two-piece outfit. The mass manufacturers had also ducked up. Portland, Ore.'s White Stag Manufacturing Co., whose ski clothes had outsold all others for years (last year's gross: some $1,500,000), stepped out with a jazzy checkered suit (price...
...life. There are many Christians who are convinced that there is much more in common between Christianity and Communism than between Christianity and Capitalism. In Russia there are millions of Orthodox who are loyal citizens of a Communist state. In Poland there are convinced Communists who regularly attend Mass. In Czechoslovakia among the members of some of the Reformed Churches there are to be found convinced Communists . . . The Church therefore should avoid an indiscriminate condemnation of Communism, which would compel many, especially of the younger generation, to feel that they must choose between Christianity and Communism...
...liquor became more prominent over Yale weekends, mass cheering techniques diminished, but from 1900 until 1920, the student body, officers, and alumni had really knocked themselves out in backing up the team...