Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There has also been an outmigration of school children at approximately the fifth-grade level," Curry added. "People's children grow up, and then the family moves out of town...
...long as there is history. Individual Jews will always come to Christianity; but the question whether Christianity should try to convert Judaism as a whole is at least an open question, and a question about which many Biblical theologians of today are extremely skeptical ..." ¶ In the German town of Darmstadt-Eberstadt (pop. 15,000), Protestant and Roman Catholic church bells rang out in new ecumenical harmony. The Catholic bells' low C,D,F,G and the Evangelical bells' higher G,B,C,D formed (more or less) the tune of the Te Deum composed...
...eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World War I prize ring. He had slugged and butted and cuffed his way to the lightweight championship of the world, and he had his brains unhinged in the process. A small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took the title from Battling Nelson in 1910. Their 40-round brawl at Point Richmond, just across the bay from San Francisco, was one of the bloodiest in the history of boxing. Promoter Billy McCarney had stirred up a fine feud between the fighters...
...Derby). He was no Communist, he told the Worker people; he didn't even vote. Still, the end seemed to justify the means. Proper Fun. Alf never finds time to go to the track. ("I'm too busy working out the form and collecting information around town.") But he admits he has done pretty well. Says he: "Nothing else interests me. Stick with me, bet within your means, and you'll have fun." One afternoon last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute...
...specialized in paintings of birds. "That's Spain." But what especially caught Rosamond Bernier's eye was the collection of nine oils painted by Picasso during a 1917 visit to Barcelona. It was an event the family is not likely to forget. Uncle Pablo rode into town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting...