Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...blueprint and a prayer." The blueprint was the work of a group of wealthy U.S. Jews who raised an initial $1,500,000 to set up a university that was to be sponsored by Jews but was to be nonsectarian in faculty and student body. The founders* took over the 100-acre campus of defunct Middlesex University, hired 50-year-old Historian Sachar, former national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, as president, and opened Brandeis' doors with 107 freshmen...
Judge Davidson took the case under advisement as the United Secularists settled themselves down for a long climb up the legal ladder to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last-week scrappy Octogenarian McCarthy's white frame house in Clifton, N.J. was piled high with broadsides, and almost every evening embattled Secularists were coming in to help mail out a special appeal for funds. Said McCarthy happily: "Nobody gets paid for this, you understand. We're all charity workers here-and we're giving the Lord hell...
...Moral Ideals. Born in Northampton, England in 1866, William Thomas Manning came to the U.S. with his father and mother when he was a high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish...
...much about two of the three, multimillionaire Grain Merchant James Norris, owner of Detroit's Red Wing hockey team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown, 53, who took his place (with Norris) on the Rock Island's executive board last week, and began to help run the railroad...