Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The War. The Salvation Army is a religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it...
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Through street-corner collections, donations, special campaigns, and participation in some Community Chests, the army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only...
The army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike...
Out of the Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown...