Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born husband had picked this vermin-filled, draughty place for a settlement house. Greenwich Villagers peering suspiciously from windows figured "we were just another family moving in," Mrs. Sim says. They were glad to be accepted that way; "we did not want to be regarded as strangers bent on uplift...
Jones Street was in need of uplift. It was one of Manhattan's most densely populated blocks, with an infant death rate of 125 to the thousand (compared with a New York City average of 58.7), and it was at the mercy of two notorious adolescent gangs known as the Hudson Dusters and the Gophers. Vice, disease, overcrowded tenements, saloons, no playgrounds-these were the problems of Mrs. Sim's neighbors...
...layman, deeply conscious of my own enormous shortcomings as a Christian, I cannot agree with most of the answers to the question: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" [TIME, April 16]. Our religion, particularly Protestantism, has become a social uplift movement instead of a transforming force in the life of the individual as intended by the Master. We go to church for the sake of conscience and a "good feeling," hear words of indulgence which should be words of the severity of truth, and then mistake the good feeling we have for true religion, forgetting God betweentimes...
...This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college, but its 32 members are all intelligent, imaginative schools urgently devoted to racial uplift and interracial understanding...
...years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband; the crooked lawyer never does Honest John out of his inheritance; every last confession ends in an odor of uplift...