Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic Church has turned thumbs down on the Moral Re-Armament movement. In Washington, D.C. the National Catholic Welfare Conference's press department, clearing house of all U.S.-Catholic public information, issued a pointed résumé of "important Church documents recently released in various parts of the world." Heart of the résumé: a letter to all bishops from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office at the Vatican. Excerpt: "It is not fitting for ... priests, and much less for nuns, to participate in the meetings of Moral Re-Armament, [nor should] the faithful...
...radio-TV, music. How much building he can do actually depends on new Publisher George G. Kirstein, son of the former chairman of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co. To pay some of the Nation's bills, Kirstein is himself putting a limited (and unspecified) sum into the nonprofit company that holds all Nation stock, hopes to raise enough new cash to beef up the Nation...
CUBAN OIL will get a big push from Standard Oil Co. (Indiana). Standard has earmarked $10 million to drill in 12 million acres of south Cuba's coastal land and tideland, will own a permanent half-interest in any productive wells it brings in after spending the total sum...
...also divorce her husbands and return to her parents' house. She is then called a dhyanty and has a good deal of latitude about her choice of lovers. Should she elect to remarry, however, her new set of husbands must pay the first set of husbands a sum which is fixed by the village council. Since an individual suitor is rarely able to afford paying off several husbands, a dhyanty usually has to marry another group of brothers...
...Hingham were a philosopher instead of a life-insurance salesman, he might sum himself up by saying: "I dread, therefore I am." The realest thing about young Hal, a tenth-rate agent for Arcadia Life, is the queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach when he faces his boss, his girl, or anyone else. As he somnambulates through life with a nagging sense of being out of step, people bump into him as if he were invisible, and prospects look out the window when he wants them to sign on the dotted line. Snaps his girl friend Rose...