Word: archangel
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...first dual movement occurred in Heaven itself, a place where harmony and peace prevailed. Yet a dual movement began when, as a committee of one, Michael the Archangel rebelled against God and His authority...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...With him was his friend and close colleague, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...captain of a little freighter, Commander Sir Edgar Britten, Cunard White Star's commodore and commander of the Queen Mary, was locked in the Arctic ice near Archangel for five months. To him the next 20 minutes seemed as long. Could the eight tugs get Queen Mary off? Gaping crowds on shore stood only 20 feet from her stern, watched an epic feat of British seamanship...