Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local trend, in contrast to a slight decline in sales reported in New York during the past few days, has been a continued increase in the volume of purchases...
Wallach has been attempting to prove, for the past two weeks, that St. Benedict's Center, headed by Father Feeney, has no right to GI Bill funds. According to the State Department of Education, an educational institution must meet four criteria for certification. Wallach claims that St. Benedict's fails in one of these--the criterion of academic fitness of its teaching staff...
...conferees found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...concrete tennis courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for by the U.S. taxpayer (through the Commodity Credit Corp.), the cottonseed seemed destined for the same fate as the mountains of potatoes, eggs and other commodities which the Government in the past has bought...
...popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them up. But 1949 was also a year in which there were more good books in more fields than the U.S. public has had for several years past...