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...have all been questioning me," he said, "Now I want to ask you a few things. How many of you prayed today?" About five hands went up. "How many of you have read the Bible?" About the same number responded. "How many believe in a living God?" Nearly one-fourth of the audience raised their hands. A few less declared that they believed that Jesus...
...legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government. In agriculture, the communistic artels have shrunk to less than one-fourth of their original size and members. Those which still operate have abandoned the purely communistic system for an arrangement of guaranteed minimum wages and devotion of a small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both for marketing the district...
...Cafeteria, which has just closed, ends, one would judge, a not too profitable season, while the Dining Hall is serving something near one-fourth the number of men it served last year. If the management expects to reopen these restaurants next year, and to run them at a reasonable cost without loss, some improvement is necessary...
...States may ratify a proposed amendment or reject it, or reverse their decisions to ratify or reject it until (a) three-fourths of the states shall have ratified, (b) more than one-fourth of the states shall have rejected the proposed amendment, or (c) six years shall have elapsed from the date at which Congress submitted the amendment to the states...
...Rejection by more than one-fourth of the states, or the passage of more than six years without ratification by three-fourths of the states, constitutes a final rejection of an amendment...