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Word: presbyterian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skunks for Sears. Murchison got his start in business as a boy in Athens. His parents were of Scotch Presbyterian pioneer stock and, for Athenians, fairly well off; his father was head of the First National Bank. Nevertheless, young Clint, the second of nine children, used to get up at 3 a.m. to run a trap line for coons and skunks, sold the pelts to Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Apropos Theologian Van Dusen's choice of which church to serve: his reasons for rejecting the Episcopal Church in favor of the Presbyterian aren't very good theology, nor correct in their implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...George Arthur Buttrick, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, hung some crape for the students of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.: "We have explored the planet to learn its secrets, and . . . our ills have multiplied so greatly that our mental hospitals cannot contain them," he gloomed. "It is poetic justice that a generation which has been seeking its own life now has to talk about itself in a psychiatrist's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown." * In 1953, membership in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (Northern) boomed to a record 2,581,580, the denomination's headquarters announced. Sunday-school enrollment rose by 90,834-the largest gain in the church's history-to 1,684,415. An upsurge in U.S. church life was also noted by the 45 bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Herbert Wells, 79, learned the fund-raising business as a partner in the pioneer firm of Ward, Wells and Dreshman, founded in Fort Worth in 1911. Son Lewis, 49, a wartime lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who had once thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister, set up his own firm in 1946, later decided to specialize in religious causes. That led to Wells Organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Let Your Light Shine | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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