Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first: at Minneapolis in 1954. * The once vital Nonconformist churches do no better: during the past 50 years, membership in English Congregationalist churches has declined 50%, and in the Baptist churches 25%. Thanks to Irish immigration, Roman Catholics have increased rapidly since World War II, now number 5,000,000. But Sunday attendance at Mass is depressingly low. * When Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. tried to take over Courtaulds, Ltd. in 1961, records showed the church to be second largest shareholder in both corporations. The church currently owns 2,600,000 shares of the British Motor Corp...
Nondefinition. Redefinition, when and if it is done, will have to come out of what some puzzled outsiders regard as nondefinition. Anglicans proudly regard their faith as a middle way between the rigidities of Rome and the Reformation, a unique and vital bridge between Protestantism and historical Catholicism. But Lutheran Theologian Einar Molland describes Anglicanism as "the most elastic church in Christendom"-and with some justice. The essential Lutheran faith is contained in the Augsburg Confession of 1530; the Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole...
...does a doctor examine a patient who is too ticklish to be touched? Usually he doesn't; he asks such patients to press hard on vital points of their own anatomy and report whether it hurts - an admittedly unsatisfactory substitute. But Detroit's Dr. Robert A. Gerisch had an idea. He had grown up with the problem, because his own fa ther had been so ticklish that he would jump if anybody pointed a finger...
...Johannesburg grew from a brawling mining camp to a vital metropolis, I. W.'s enterprises grew with it. I. W. put up $560 million worth of real estate subdivisions, introduced the chain store, cafeteria and American-style drugstore to South Africa. He gradually bought up most of South Africa's "tearoom bioscopes" (combination cafe-movie theaters), then added a catering service to supply them. Catering led him into the hotel and restaurant business. When he died in 1949, he was involved in nearly every sector of the economy...
Egon Matzner, official of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, declared, "There can be no greater mistake than to think of the six countries of Western Europe as all of Europe." Matzner emphasized the vital role of the European neutrals--Austria, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries, in encouraging better relations between Eastern and Western Europe...