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Word: quaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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George A. Selleck, adviser to the Quaker group, also agreed that the plan was feasible and commented that "the teaching of religion can be as objective as any course...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Unitarians Split with Other Student Religious Groups Over College Adding Chaplain and Preacher to Faculty | 5/8/1951 | See Source »

History and legend have both been unkind. Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of "painful Kelpius . . . maddest of good men . . . weird as a wizard, over arts forbid." But before the day when he died in his garden at only 35, Kelpius had succeeded in giving his followers something of his vision of a life sustained in its every moment by communion with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Maddest of Good Men | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...List. This year's new list of Royal Warrants has 1,035 names, including such old ones as Dunhill, Cadbury cocoa and Steinway & Sons pianos and such new ones as Quaker Oats, Kayser hosiery and the West Norfolk Farmers' Manure and Chemical Cooperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: All the King's Men | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...have these spiritual refreshers become that last year the league held them in installments for a total of 11,882 men. Last week, the annual dinner of the Men of Malvern* heard New York City's house-cleaning Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy, a Catholic, pay tribute to Quaker Whittaker Chambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moral Courage | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Died. Alys Pearsall Smith Russell, 83, of Philadelphia's Quaker Smiths,* first wife (1894-1921) of British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom she divorced when he had a child by another woman; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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