Word: methodist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate a unanimous All-American, Doak Walker of Southern Methodist University...
...town has three general stores-the Regal, Herb Minnicks and Dyers. It has two gas stations, a post office (Ross Gallimore, postmaster) and Fulk Bros. Electric Store. There are four churches-the Nazarene, Methodist, Baptist, and the white, steepled Christian Church to which all of Freedom's people were invited, last week, to hear a Christmas cantata...
...season of fast-&-furious substitution, Southern Methodist's "iron man," Quarterback Doak Walker, played 48 minutes out of every 60. When he was on the bench, the team seemed lost. Doak carried the ball, threw passes, did the punting, called signals, scored eleven touchdowns, kicked 22 points after touchdown, blocked viciously-and, outside of Arkansas' Clyde Scott, was probably the best defensive back in collegiate football. He weighed only...
...usually abed by 10 p.m. and he was sleeping soundly, he said. The only insomnia he could remember recently was last March, when the surprise election of General Li Tsung-jen to the vice presidency had made him somewhat sleepless. He had cured that by violating one of his Methodist principles: he had downed a little bit of whiskey...
...father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...