Word: comforters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This was a natural, if delayed, comfort to Gehrmann, who had been named the winner in the first place when Chief Judge Asa Bushnell intervened to break a tie among the place judges (TIME, Feb. 6). It was a matching disappointment to Manhattan FBI-Man Fred Wilt, who was ruled the winner 13 days after the race, when New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. decided that one place judge had been ineligible to cast a vote (TIME, Feb. 20). In submitting the question to representatives of its national membership, most of whom had been miles from Madison Square Garden...
Pastor Steimle, who was an English major at Princeton, said the church's development had been greatly influenced by students. "We wanted them to take part in our activities, so we asked them their preferences. As a result, the new church will not only comfort the soul, but the body as well...
...Civil War back where it belongs-in the center of the American story. With the war left out, the American character is incomprehensible, and dangerously so. In 1861 and in 1950, the American represented himself (and believed himself) as despising politics and loving comfort above all men. Yet the American has always been deeply political, a man with a burning concern as to who may tell whom to do what...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...
After 100 tons of snow had been cleared off the field at Knoxville, Tennessee's Cotton Bowl-bound Volunteers threw themselves on the frozen turf to recover eight of Kentucky's nine fumbles, then whipped the unbeaten Wildcats, 7-0, in 15° weather. Some Southern comfort was provided after the game with the announcement that Kentucky, despite its defeat, had been chosen to play in the Sugar Bowl. Probable opponent: Oklahoma, which won its 30th straight by downing Nebraska...