Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indirect reports have B. F. Sturtevant offering Dave Downing an immediate position as executive advisor to the president. And because of his vast (and freely expressed) knowledge of palletizing there may be room of Jack Gumbiner in that storage shed behind building...
Using shade trees for classroom roofs, Farmer-Missionary Higginbottom started the Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart, "that the state of mind seems to be more strongly than ever that the names belong to us-to alter them would be repudiation of our own history." As Mrs. Ara Green, assistant postmistress of Tokyo...
...total loans were not large. But there was an indirect benefit evident in increased loans by other banks: they have had to shed some of their timidity rather than lose business...
...ragged sum, these church critics seemed to feel that the church should shed its parochialism, actually practice brotherhood, instead of merely preaching it, and concern itself with human life rather than with doctrines. Dean John M. Atwood, of St. Lawrence University's Theological School, Canton, N.Y., summed up the Protestant unease: "Ministers and others seem to think that they qualify as religious when they make ascriptions of praise to God . . . and piously go through their devotions. . . . [But] their first and great purpose is not formally to glorify or serve God-which is always orthodox and safe -but to serve...