Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a churchman sees a Catholic decline ahead unless the Catholic Church can strengthen itself in the rural areas, where families are still big enough to keep church membership growing. With Protestants outnumbering Catholics in rural areas by nearly five to one (the national ratio is less than two to one), falling urban birthrates (ten adults now rear only seven children) threaten to make Catholicism relatively less important in the next generation. The cities depend for survival on immigration from the countryside or overseas. In 1941 urban Catholic churches are not drawing much new strength from either source...
...Catholic organization most directly concerned with this problem met last week to do something about it. This was the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, which gathered in Jefferson City, Mo. for its 19th annual convention. It discussed dozens of ways to strengthen rural Catholicism...
...also was the object of attention yesterday as Dick Harlow announced that he had shifted the 190-pound Senior from left to right guard in order to strengthen the reserve situation in the forward wall...
...call a form of megalomania? It's presumptuousness at the least. Now that he has been revealed as a prime stirrer-upper of racial prejudice he ceases to be merely ridiculous-he becomes a menace to the very ideals of tolerance and justice which we are trying to strengthen and deepen. If we must have Junior in politics let him keep his bib clean...
...helping the British Empire defend the ideal of a free society which is built on a profound faith in the significance of the individual, the basis of our University tradition. "It is, therefore, for a two-fold reason a primary duty of a university to cherish this faith and strengthen it by words and deeds...