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...plans, drawn up by Arland Dirlan of Boston, incorporate large windows, blood wood, and a circular stairway in the parish house. A student center, located behind the main chapel, provides meeting rooms, offices, and a comfortable lounge. The basement contains a large recreation room complete with a stage. Pastor Edmond D. Steimle, who will be head of the Lutheran congregation, hopes the facilities will attract students of all sects to the church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Lutheran Church Will Have Modern Lines | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...Mayans didn't have this sort of a problem, Benjamin D. Paul, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, pointed out. They reckoned time spans in 52 year cycles, at the end of which they had a massive celebration around a four aided temple, each of which had a 52 stop stairway leading up to it. When the celebration was over, they started a 52 year stretch all over again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midcentury -- Is It '50 or '51? | 12/8/1950 | See Source »

...things if they are in the national interest . . . I do not believe in coalitions that are formed only as the result of party bargainings. It is vain to suppose that . . . an artificial arrangement between party leaders would meet our needs . . . How deep we shall have to descend the dark stairway which lies before us no one can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Talk of Merger | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Downstairs in the house, Doughty and his wife started toward the stairway, but had to retreat from the gasoline-fired flame already roaring through the hall. They turned quickly to follow their older daughter through a living-room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: I'm Going Down! | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. Forrest W. Sweitzer, charging desertion, finally filed a divorce suit against her husband, who disappeared, she said, in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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