Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citing gospel tunes such as I Need Thee Every Hour and Blessed Assurance with the blissful assurance that they are out of date and hard to sing, this musical ragamuffin exhibits the familiar technique of the collectivist revolutionists, viz., to state a false proposition as if it were a long-accepted fact. Persons like this Wiant are not competent to sense the enduring sincerity of the very gospel songs they presume to judge...
...getting overdue attention. Main problem: the teacher shortage. To produce one student theme a week. Conant suggested that no English teacher should handle more than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding $2,300.000 to the budget. Solution: hiring part-time "lay readers." college-trained housewives who can take over the chore at 25? a theme. The idea is being used in 16 cities. ¶ Across the country, arithmetic is being switched from rote learning and the "social...
...Today our technology has brought a chaos. We have speed, traffic, fear, congestion and restlessness. We need a place to put our lives in balance. Architecture is a good place for this. When people go into good buildings, there should be serenity and delight...
...fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number of clergymen, like Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need it can make...
...Roman Catholic formula: "May our Lord Jesus Christ absolve thee; and I, by His authority, absolve thee . . . inasmuch as in my power lieth, and thou standest in need. Finally, I absolve thee from thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen...