Word: sprout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worldly Goods. One fact not generally understood is that the Salvation Army, sometimes called the church of the unchurched, is just as definitely a religious body as, for example, the Methodist Church, from which it is a sturdy sprout. Its soldiers are its parishioners-generally people with regular jobs, who have made the army their avocation. The officers, who have dedicated their lives completely to the cause, are regular ordained ministers. Few of them are intellectuals; all have heard what they describe simply as "a call from...
...document his theory, Dr. Ekholm exhibits a stone bas-relief from India's Amaravati period (about 200 A.D.). At the ends are beasts with fishlike bodies. Out of their mouths sprout lotus flowers, and lotus stems wind sinuously through the carvings...
...relief from the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, shows similar figures, distorted but still recognizable.. In the Mayan version, the fish-beasts have turned into fish, but conventionalized lotus flowers sprout from their mouths and clumsy lotus stems wind grotesquely. Since the lotus is the symbol of Buddhism, Dr. Ekholm believes that the lotus design may have been brought to Yucatan by a Buddhist missionary. He shows a carving from India of the Buddha seated in a lotus flower. Beside it he shows another stylized lotus flower from Yucatan. In the center, instead of the placid Buddha...
...muggy season was setting in for Broadway's 18 surviving shows, and the U.S. theater got ready again last week to take to the country. By month's end, in such unlikely pastures as Fish Creek, Wis. and Woods Hole, Mass., more than 200 summer playhouses will sprout across the land. By Labor Day, they should yield a multimillion-dollar harvest-and more acting jobs than three Manhattan seasons...
Ever since the Houses started to sprout in the Charles River valley in the early 1930's, a gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes...