Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rudy LaRusso, the Indians have posted a 7-4 record thus far, including impressive wins over Brigham Young and Canisius, and losses to Vanderbilt (which knocked off Kentucky), Butler, Bradley, and Holy Cross. In League play, the Green has squeaked past Yale, 52 to 51, and has soundly defeated Columbia and Cornell...
...freshman game will precede the varsity contest, which on the basis of past performances and all-around strength should go to the Indians. Back on Friday, October 24, however, people were saying the same thing about another Dartmouth team that came to Cambridge...
Oxala & Ogun. The upsurge of spiritism in Roman Catholic (95%) Brazil is a phenomenon of the past decade, but its roots go deep. Slaves brought their gods from Africa, and many of them changed in their new country: among the Nagôs, Yemanjá was a river goddess who became a sea goddess on the journey across the water; Calunga, the Bantu sea god, became the god of death during the slave ship trip to Brazil. The spirit deities also merged with Catholic theology: Oxala is both the Lord of Creation and Christ, Yemanjá is also Our Lady...
...spiritist leaders and to draw their followers into church by holding Masses in honor of their most popular saints, notably St. George and St. Sebastian. After painstaking studies of prestidigitation and stage music, Rio's Marist Brothers put on a series of public shows during the past year to duplicate the tricks by which the spiritist babalaôs hoodwink the gullible. Such sound showmanship has had some success...
...made head of the northeast office in 1928, moved past 16 men to become Pacific Coast manager in 1930, soon chose to transfer to G.E.'s new merchandising department in Bridgeport, Conn, to "get closer to the hub of the corporate wheel." He hiked sales in the electric heating division 60% in four years, became assistant to Bridgeport Boss Charles E. Wilson. When "Electric Charlie" Wilson moved up to become executive vice president of G.E., Ralph Cordiner stepped into his shoes at Bridgeport. He was only...