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...ridges leading to the summit are often sharp enough to cut a finger on, and widen out only one foot for every ten foot down. Yet only at the ridge is there a route to the peak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Scales Peru Peak During Summer | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Justice." The declarations of both churches raised a fresh storm of Communist anger. In this tense atmosphere, the Evangelical Synod of all Germany-both West and East-held its annual meeting in the Eastern sector of Berlin. Many expected that the Synod would widen the breach between Christian church and Communist state. But Dibelius, after denouncing the "increasingly worsened" conditions, insisted that the church was not attacking any special group, but only "defending itself against anti-Christian assault." It was thus clear that Protestant leaders hoped to maintain their tenuous attitude of "a plague on both your houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Still Neutral | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Kirkland's grip on first place in the House "A" League Basketball League tightened yesterday, though the Deacons remained idle. Leverett upset Second-place Dudley, 40 to 38, to widen the gap between Kirkland and the Commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Quintet Trips Commuters In Close Contest | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

There is even a rumor abroad that Massachusetts will widen part of the abomination which takes the traveller from Worcester to the state line. A four-lane throughway from here to Gotham is almost in the realm of distant possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Pass | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Until this year, television's friends & foes had generally agreed that radio's soap operas would not lend themselves successfully to the TV screen. As is often the case with expert guessers on television, they were wrong. Headed by the successful The Goldbergs, soap operas will surely widen their TV beachhead this autumn. But there are snags, nevertheless, for both soap operas and other radio serials. Some of the shows promised or projected, and their problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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