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Word: upness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still to be completed, among other projects, are the marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Catholic Shrine | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

White Africans are most impressed by Bhengu's effect on the crime rate. In some areas it has dropped as much as a third, and last year Bhengu set himself to reduce crime in Johannesburg by 25%. He is still far short of his goal, but the attempt itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

One of the strongest Christian influences in Africa is a 50-year-old Zulu with a pencil-line mustache and horn-rimmed spectacles who has a knack of persuading criminals to turn in their weapons-and often themselves. Wearing a dark business suit, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu stands on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Waiting in the wings for his entrance cue during a Metropolitan Opera performance of The Marriage oj Figaro last week, Tenor Charles Kullman (Don Basilic) suddenly realized that he was missing something: his voice. His vocal cords evidently affected by a lingering cold, Kullman rushed to the dressing room and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Chairs at the Met | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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