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Word: presbyterian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallic grandpere (Edgar Stehli), are French-Canadians living in Ottawa in the early 19205. There are grandpère's three sons-a "crazy violinist" (Claude Dauphin), a round-the-clock tosspot (Kurt Kasznar), and a round-the-town ladies' man (Richard Hart); his often disapproving Scottish-Presbyterian daughter-in-law (Leora Dana); and his grandson (Johnny Stewart) who stands on the curb of adolescence waiting for his voice to change. When a pretty girl (Eva Gabor) comes to help with the housework, love stirs for the first time in the ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: If They Have the Heart | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

RALPH D. EVANS Minister First Presbyterian Church Hutchinson, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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