Word: appertains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were grace and faith. When the age of reason repealed the Fall, man was thrust back onto himself and, for a time, reason seemed to be an adequate substitute for the certainties of faith. Spinoza could write confidently: "Fear arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason/' But it was soon clear that reason alone could not answer all man's questions, could not provide what he desperately needs: order and purpose in the universe. And so man invented substitute deities?History, the State, Environment. But in the end all these only...
...dropping the dragon and feathers, while not set forth by the College of Arms, were assumed to have something to do with the fact that there is no Prince of Wales. The immense revenues which previously went to the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall now appertain to His Majesty, although when he first came to the Throne experts disputed weightily whether he retained the title Duke of Cornwall. It has also been arranged that military groups designated hitherto as "The Prince of Wales' Own" retain that designation and their bands continue to play their stirring march...
Whatever is royal and at the same time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
...transfer of Alaskan forest reserves to the control of Secretary Fall's Department of the Interior. This fight was long and bitter. In his speech of July, 1923, President Harding let it be known that he sided with Mr. Wallace and against Secretary Fall. The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture...
...coast was suspended during the last three days of June and no parcel post was shipped over the same routes for the last week of the month. The reason for the cessation of mail service was that the Post Office Department does business according to rules that do not appertain in private business; all its income goes into the public treasury; all its expenditures come from specific appropriations by Congress...