Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed a small Catholic workers' group. Jocism grew much like other isms - in cells (always with priests as nuclei) from which zealous apostles, called "militants," proselytized. Today, there are 90,000 Jocists in Belgium, 100,000 in France, a total of 500,000 in Europe, of whom one-sixth are militants. Jocism recruits mem bers at 14, asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists put their leader ship through exhaustive training, holding a retreat-like congress once a year in Belgium. Canon Cardijn calls...
...York last week Hearstmen worried about another fire which burned 1,500 tons of paper in the building where the Journal & American is published. Rewrite men stuck to their desks on the sixth floor, wrote the story with wet handkerchiefs dangling over their eyes to keep out the smoke...
...twelve ton moving van then entered the scene from the left, and no sooner had the first pair of wheels left their impressions on the shell, then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth pairs of wheels did likewise, none to be outdone by its predecessor. That was the end of the shell...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth largest U. S. Steel producer, $30,000,000 in 4% convertible debentures-$12,500,000 to repay bank loans, $17,500,000 for expansion. The issue, postponed when it was first proposed last October, sold sluggishly. Underwriters headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. were said to have nearly $4,500,000 left on their hands...
...discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...