Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terse postscript, he concluded: "I most respectfully urge that the text of this letter ... be made public...
...bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...
...Political Successor. Questioned, General Revers made a damaging admission: he had given the text of the report to General Mast. In his turn, Mast admitted that he had passed it on to the informer. In Paris last week, fellow officers reasoned that, in handing out the report which was critical of French cabinet ministers, General Revers had probably been playing one of his political tricks; it was known that he had also given the report to several politicians and officials...
After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted...
...least a little imagination. It is conceivable that someday you could flick the dial on your radio and hear something like this "...so just send in two box tops and 10 cents, ladies, and you will receive a neatly packaged, simplified version of Professor Kluckhohn's stimulating new text, "The Curious Habits of Navaho Married Couples.'" But it is also conceivable that radio could be a very strong educational force--especially for adults and isolated communities...