Word: mines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augustinian monk named Martin Luther had no intention of founding Lutheranism-either in fact or in name. In 1522. when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those who agreed with...
...Critic John Mason Brown ('23): "I came as thousands of others have, from the semidarkness of the subway into the blinding sunshine of Cambridge and Harvard and the Yard. I wanted to do something in connection with the theater. At Harvard they produced this one-act play of mine, and the minute I heard the first two lines spoken, I knew that Shakespeare and O'Neill were safe.'' Playwright Howard Lindsay spoke a pertinent line of Philosopher William James's (M.D., 1869): "The day when Harvard shall stamp a single hard and fast character upon...
When it was discovered about twelve years ago that the slopes around Aspen, Colo, could be mined for skiers' dollars as profitably as they had been worked for silver 75 years before, a permanent snow blindness began to cloud the vision of Aspen (pop. 1,200). This year, with the dollar-mine booming, the malady gripped the school system. School officials have long since been faced with the looming, 11,300-ft.high Mount Aspen tantalizingly visible from classroom windows. When book learning shuts down at noon every Wednesday, almost the entire school population gathers at the ski school...
...beginning, vague, fey Dody, a dancing veteran of show business, could not utter an unfunny word in the show's informal panel chatter-and all the laughs seemed to strike her as a complete surprise. Paar sang her praises (a "small gold mine," a treasure "straight from the moon"), assured viewers: "Honest, this girl is for real." Soon Dody was getting heavy fan mail, interviews and $920 a week...
...Business on the Rocks) and new definitions, e.g., the difference between recession and depression ("A recession is when you lose your job, a depression when I lose mine"). Yet, like businessmen, the average consumer seemed more worried about his neighbor than himself...