Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wanted to be priests, but not enough seminary facilities to train them. Africa's other bishops, being white, had friends and well-wishers outside the country who would help support seminaries, but he knew no non-Africans to whom he could turn for funds. "Go to America and make friends there," replied the Pope. "You will find the Americans are very good, very kind, and very charitable...
...things happened to make Brigham City change its mind: 1) a citizens' committee visited the Navajo Reservation and returned surprised and pleased with what it had learned about Navajos, and 2) the Indian Service's George Arthur Boyce arrived in town to get things going...
With all Intermountain's beginners, teachers had to use every bit of their ingenuity to make sense of their courses. English teachers cut out carefully labeled pictures of beds, chairs, tables, houses, barns and animals, and pasted them on the walls. Arithmetic teachers played grocery store, tried to relate their blackboard figures to matters their pupils would understand ("We must keep these numbers in a row just like rows of soldiers, or just like horses walking to a water hole"). Counselors pinned up posters that hammered at the homely rules of hygiene...
Deadly Grip. Through most of his ups & downs Birdsall Sweet kept his spirits high, learned to make the best of his ironclad life. He learned checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...
...Composer Menotti had let two Broadway neophytes named Chandler Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., both 28, convince him that they could make The Medium a success on the Main Stem...