Word: offshoot
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...last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which is Methodistic) and the Reformed Church...
...Acting as the Socialist Workers Party, a wizened little offshoot of the Communists...
Last week's honors for Mary Reed were part of the 34th annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers, an interdenominational Protestant offshoot of the 67-year-old British Mission to Lepers. Together the two operate 200 colonies for 150,000 lepers in 48 countries. This year the American Mission raised $300,000 for its work. This is a new high record-but it is only $2 per leper in the church colonies, and less than 6? each for the five to ten million lepers in the world...
...world's champion). But in the novice class was a perky 13-year-old, Anne Robinson, a collateral descendant of Jackson Haines. Little Anne has been skating only three years, but she won the Eastern championship four weeks ago. Last week, in her first national tournament, the Haines offshoot lost her poise, finished eighth; but experts predicted that she would do better...
...Morgan's underwriting offshoot), went to court to change her name to Charlotte Elizabeth-at Elizabeth...