Word: withdrawnness
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...ambitious building program well under way, Virginia Theological Seminary will be able to accept only 40% of this year's close-to-200 applicants. The total number of graduates from all Episcopal seminaries in 1949 will be only 190, as against an estimated 187 clergymen who will be withdrawn during the year because of death, retirement, etc. More than on any other single factor, the Alexandria conference agreed, the future of the Episcopal Church seems to depend upon the ability of its seminaries to expand...
...Jean Hersholt can not conceal. (And I want it understood that I am not saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn because the Awards have been given consistently on artistic rather than commercial merit, which is what he says the studies want...
...statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
...pointed out "a number of Harvard students have been affected by Fr. Feeney's teaching and a very, very few have withdrawn from the College within the last two years." He added, however, that R is difficult to determine the precise included of Fr. Feeney on such withdrawals...
...witness chair, impeccably correct in a double-breasted grey suit, he began: "I have waited a long time to answer this, and I want to answer in detail. As a preliminary I would like to state that my friendship is not easily given and is not easily withdrawn...