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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The church still owed $200 on its $2,700 worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rededication | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

The new bishop was something of a shock. In 1939, the Roman Catholics of Kansas City, Mo. hardly knew what to make of the intense, quiet-mannered man with reddish-brown hair and big ideas who came to preside over their 23,000-sq.-mi.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Busy Bishop | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Jesse Stuart's sister was "a beautiful, blue-eyed girl of 19" when she took over the job of teaching the one-room school at a place he chooses to call Lonesome Valley, Ky. She came home shortly after that a nervous wreck. Among other things, one of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Jesse found that if he cut up his big calendar and pasted the numbers on bits of cardboard, he could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Sir Geoffrey, a free-enterpriser, wanted to build the first Comet for the government without government interference. To win that freedom, along with the necessary government contract, he risked a heavy loss by accepting a penalty clause. If the Comet was not completed on time and did not perform as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Stars in the Sky | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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