Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somewhat battered varsity soccer team will face Boston University here this afternoon in what Crimson coach Bruce Munro terms "a heavy scrimmage." However, the game is a regulation one, and will count for the record...
CHRISTMAS CLUBS will pay record $1.3 billion, 3% more than 1957, to 13 million members through 7,900 banks and savings and loan associations. Top saving states: New York $281.8 million, Pennsylvania $184 million, New Jersey $144.8 million...
More and more customers are becoming suspicious of price cuts. A study by Pittsburgh's Duquesne University shows that buyers strongly suspect claims of price cuts above 27.5%. Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that. But when it put them on sale at $18, it made no mention of the old price because: "the comparison would not have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising...
...Italian Risorgimento. Whatever threats Christianity will face under Pope John's reign will not necessarily be greater than the invasion of the Lombards from whom Gregory the Great (590-604) saved Rome. Whatever tests await Pope John's diplomacy will recall that behind him lies the record of Hildebrand (Gregory VII, 1073-1085), who kept Henry IV of Germany waiting barefoot in the snow for three days and established the spiritual authority of the church over the temporal power of monarchs. And no schismatic efforts of the Chinese Communists to divide Chinese Catholics from the church in Rome...
...judge from his record so far, Pope John XXIII will face the dangers and confusions of his era with the patience expressed by his favorite maxim of government, and probably with more force than it suggests. The maxim: Omnia videre, multa dissimulare, pauca corrigere-to see everything, to turn a blind eye on much of it, to correct a little...