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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 105 Men's Social Service Centers in the U.S., where the army starts its salvageable wrecks on the road back. Manhattan's center is a seven-story warehouse building near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Was there anything salvageable in such wreckage? William Booth had told his followers: "We are moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

One phenomenon not immediately observable in the statistics: all the army's work across the U.S. is carried on by 5,000 officers, 37,500 soldiers (these are the 42,500 of the Salvation Army in the U.S.), a few thousand non-army paid employees, and a handful of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Cadets spend time learning to play trombones, trumpets, accordions, euphoniums, graduate with the rank of probationary lieutenant. After a year of correspondence study and strict probation, they are commissioned as second lieutenants with the legal standing of ordained ministers. From there they advance through the field ranks: first lieutenant, captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

As for dramatic quality, Miner admits that it's mostly a matter of guesswork: "Plays considered surefire ahead of broadcasting time usually end up at the bottom-that happened to comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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