Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In less than a decade, he was back again at Oxford, as Catholic chaplain of the university. He held famous weekly teas in the huge, hotel-like Old Palace, where he stuffed undergraduates with good talk and anchovy toast. He became a cherished regular among the witty debaters of the...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided...
A.A.'s good record continues: about 50% of A.A. members never drink again; about half of those who "slip" return to A.A. within a period of one to five years.
Professional traders, who scoffingly described the selling by small stockholders as "emotional" and "hysterical," stepped up their buying Thursday morning. The market bounced up, recovering a fourth of its losses. But on Friday, in the broadest session on record (out of 1,415 stocks listed, 1,174 were traded), the...
Roosevelt and Hopkins is full of details that make it far more colorful than historical fiction. Once when Roosevelt complained that he never could have peanuts because his secret service would have to check each one, Sherwood and Rosenman slipped out and got him a bagful which he kept under...