Word: parte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century got under way this week. For the next 15 months-until New Year's Eve of 1950 -38 Protestant denominations, with a membership of some 35 million, will be united in trying to persuade the unchurched (estimated at 70 million) to join one of their denominations, take part in their work and devotions. Title of this all-out effort (which is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches): the United Evangelistic Advance...
...addition to her $1,600 tuition, she may spend as much as $6,000 a year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
...Birmingham owners treated their Old Etonian employee just like any Tom, Dick or Harry. In return, Henry Yorke was profoundly impressed and fascinated by his working mates ("I loved them"). Like them he was usually covered with acid stains and engineering grime, but he still did not look the part enough to deceive anyone. "I'll bet he is a public-school boy," he once heard a Birmingham woman say sadly. "I wonder what has brought him to this...
...Green has tried to investigate a new condition of life. His special "experiment" (apart from tricks of punctuation that are usually more irritating than useful) is to catch his variegated Britons in a situation (blindness, old age, a dense fog) from which they cannot escape-"imprisoned in a rudimentary part of life," says Critic Henry Reed. Thus, Green's characteristically terse titles-Blindness, Living, Caught, Back, Party Going, Concluding-are like simple signposts indicating the general direction in which he intends to explore...
...Knowlton, after playing the first part of the game at right outside, switched to center forward for the second period, scoring Harvard's second goal from there at 3:33 of the second stanza. Baker concluded the scoring at 11:21 of the same quarter...