Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoken archbishop and his church are two other groups more openly committed to violence in support of enosis - an underground terrorist gang called E.O.K.A. and the Cyprus Communist Party, whose 18,000-member Pancypriot Labor Federation has a hammer lock on the island's labor force, and whose membership includes the mayors of the second, third and fourth largest towns on the island. Communists obviously espouse the cause for troublemaking reasons alone, for if Cyprus really did fall to Greece, the Reds would be outlawed, just as they now are in Greece. In London last week, the Colonial Office...
...captivity to [suburbia] is the death blow to recovery of the Biblical view of corporate life, corporate sin and corporate salvation . . . 'Salvation' and 'redemption' are disturbing to suburbia . . . Whatever the reason, the Biblical faith is rarely met with in suburbia despite growing church membership and activity...
American suburbs are growing so quickly, says Winter, and suburbanites are joining the churches so fast that there is not enough time to indoctrinate new members as Christians. "Despite a nominal church background, this is an unconverted, untrained mass of people who make the problem of church membership comparable to what it was in the time of Constantine, when Christianity became a recognized institution of Roman society . . . Moreover, they and their clergy are too busy to stop to hear the Gospel...
...regard this as a pledge to the membership," Edson added. He included this pledge as part of a platform which gained him the presidency of the organization at Wednesday night's elections...
...itself is in a very healthy position. But many of its aspirants who failed to qualify are now stranded without a group to sing for. Through its sponsorship of the freshman chorus it has greatly increaser participation in choral singing at Harvard. Since the Club cannot enlarge its present membership and still remain a well-disciplined group, it should also sponsor a chorus for upperclassmen, similar to the freshman organization. The overflow could then continue to sing. Only the Glee Club has the necessary organization, recourses and contacts to put such an upperclass group on a permanent footing...