Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Riding By. However other newsmen may question Paul Presbrey's news-at-any-price philosophy, they agree that he has been uniquely consistent in following it. In 1936, when Presbrey was a 26-year-old cub on the old St. Paul Daily...
After disconsolately considering 30 candidates, Markel suddenly thought of a man who had not even applied. Last week Sunday Editor Markel got his man: Francis Brown, 45, an Old Times Hand and, for the last four years, a senior editor of TIME...
...plaza three Navajos rode, chanting the ancient Riding Song of the tribe. Behind them rolled a sleek black limousine bearing Archbishop Byrne of Santa Fe and Bishop Espelage of Gallup. Bishop Espelage celebrated Mass, the Navajo children's choir singing the responses. Then the Indians hunched forward expectantly. Old Father Berard was going to speak...
...humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious wine pressed from them cannot be contained in the old Christian bottles...
...King of Kings) of Persia, combined forthright admiration for Western social and industrial progress with a darkly suspicious opinion of the men who make it. As a result, he brought his 628,000-square-mile empire (about one-fifth the size of the U.S.) some mixed blessings. When the old Shah wanted railroads, for instance, he got railroads-but not always where his foreign advisers thought they would do Persia the most good...