Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this pattern conform the CCC, the NYA resident centers, the Quaker Summer Camps, Work Camps for America, and sundry other similar experiments. It is in the type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically...
...survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...
...Woolf's work obscure rather than clarify the question: Why write a book about a critic? Yet Roger Fry's achievements were genuinely great. Hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing, burdened with a great personal tragedy (his wife early became insane), he was not a successful painter, had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more...
That will be the only occasion the Harlowmen will have to see the field before game-time, because they will be taken out to the Manufacturers' Country club for luncheon and an afternoon workout. The band and a large crowd of followers will accompany the team to the Quaker City...
...going to take to the air right from the opening whistle in tomorrow's game. Charley Spreyer and Don McNicol have been limbering up their arms all week long because Dick Harlow hopes that Penn may still be vulnerable to an air attack Princeton's Dave Allerdice riddled the Quaker defenses with his serial shoots...