Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Bob Jones University has demonstrated that it is possible to take the enthusiasm of a religious revival, transfer it to a campus, and sustain it without missing a beat. The school was founded in 1927 when Bob Jones Sr., a veteran evangelist, decided that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
...today, the U.S.: ¶ Could mount and sustain an intensive atomic attack on the Russian heartland for about two months. «J Could sustain a limited offensive for six months...
Capote knows how to capture the universal in the eccentric; and his earlier scenes have a humorous shimmer and elan, as of a story that will move skippingly toward its secret. But the play thereafter cannot evoke its meaning through its mood, or even sustain its mood. It becomes a half-farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil...
...take some of them to Boston. There Gallery-Owner Margaret Brown saw them and was enthralled-"terrific spatial feeling . . . great sensitivity . . ." She put them on display along with her exhibit of Calder mobiles. "It takes an artist with some feeling," said she, "to do 20 of these and sustain his values." Some of her advance-guard customers agreed. By last week, she had sold six original Drews for $2 to $4 each, and customers were clamoring for more...
...Sherman, the President found himself backed for the first time by generals who believed as he did, that the Union's real objective was the Confederate Army. Never again would Lincoln have to complain: "Thus, often, I, who am not a specially brave man, have had to sustain the sinking courage of these professional fighters in critical times...