Word: pos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected," warns the Century, "that voices will be raised declaring that the gates of heaven cannot be stormed by mass assault, and they are right. But the point is irrelevant. In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible. Christ wills the conversion of Amer ica. Of that we can be sure. But do we desire it above everything else? Are the churches prepared to risk it? When Christ wins America every local church will be transformed, every community changed, every denomination identified with the larger life of the ecumenical church. Did those...
Said the ad in the Wall Street Journal: "Management needs person or corporation to take complete charge of sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...
...General Diffuseness." Deeply distressed was the congress' chairman, Amsterdam's shaggy-haired Hugo Pos. After two years in Buchenwald he had dropped his absent-minded-professor manner and set forth on a crusade for "scientific" philosophy which he thought would give the world a new, better life. "The discussions," Pos sighed last week, "revealed the general diffuseness of postwar thinking...
Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible. "You don't get world government," he once said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common...
...Atomic physicists generally do not see a pos sibility of producing an atomic e-:-)'onion from the light elements (hydrogen, heHum. etc.) - in which lies the danger of some atom!c experiment accidentally blowing up the whole e?rth. Says...