Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment to Solomon. The Gimo derived the lesson...
Eight years later, he came back with the money ($1,850,000 put up by Gold Mine Owner William Wright), and bought the Globe. He also bought the Globe's morning rival, the Mail & Empire, and merged the two papers into the Globe & Mail, now Canada's biggest (circ. 218,481) morning newspaper, and its best...
...Attic. One, entitled Christina's World had cost Wyeth 3½ months of steady work. "I'd go up to Christina's attic every morning at 8:30," he recalled, "and not come down until supper time. Christina's a close friend of mine and crippled. Every other day she drags herself across the field from her house to visit the graves of her family. People might call that a gloomy thing to paint, but I don't look at it that...
Says soft-spoken Dr. Penfield: "It is our task to accept the most desperate sufferers whether they come from farm, mine, factory, city, street, the home, or from other hospitals. We undertake apparently hopeless cases referred to us by doctors everywhere...
...Make Mine Manhattan. Gay, witty revue which, while pretending to laugh at Manhattan Island, makes violent love to it (TIME...