Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of ordained priests is 52,689 (up 1,876), nuns and sisters 164.922 (up 347), brothers 9,709 (up 15). And for the 13th consecutive year, the church has reported more than 100,000 adult converts: 140,411 in 1958, a total of 1,301,335 in the past decade...
...possible to escape the realization that the future of our public education is at stake, that the future of thousands upon thousands of wonderful young people depends on respect for the law. I hold a fundamental conviction that the South will intelligently and ably face, not to the illusory past, but to the high promise of our nation's future...
...fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing it. Men, argues French Author Giono, can achieve real ends only by being theatrically inspired-and cold, cunning leaders take care to pile on theater aplenty...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun, must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...
...Eastern League race shapes up as a repetition of the past two years, with no one likely to offer the Crimson and Yale much competition. The Elis, although they will have Dell, Gene Scott and Wallace back, lose Tom Freiberg, Jon Clark, and Sandy Wiener (two, three and five). They have one excellent freshman prospect in Mike Neely...