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Word: sums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelming majority of Stepinac alumni will, of course, remain laymen. But through their adolescent years they will have had the most thorough religious instruction their thoroughgoing church can provide. In a ninth-grade religion class last week, Father Joseph Sum reminded his young hearers: "At the end of the world our bodies will be reunited with our souls and either enjoy the beatific vision of Heaven or suffer the tortures of Hell." He led a careful discussion on the moral issues of the purpose of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentals of the Faith | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...club's "young ladies" wore evening gowns, and frowned at any mention of cash-checks were more refined. Customers who did not spend at least $50 a night-and the sisters considered $100 a nicer sum-were gently told not to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Wages of Sin | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence of a $90,000,000 all-University drive for general endowment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Meet October 2 On War Memorial Stalemate | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...have enough nerve to go down there." He went. Among those he met at the altar rail was Ruth Fisher, daughter of a wealthy oilman, pledging herself to the mission field. Soon after he graduated from the University of Southern California, they married; later she inherited a sizable sum from her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Pentecost | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...were. This fear could be turned into an asset by the anti-Communist nations if it gave to Western Union a sense of urgency, if it could be quickly translated into a real political, military and economic program for a Western Union which would be far stronger than the sum of its parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: It's More Fun to Know | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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