Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprise to Rector Ray's congregation. Since the church was founded by Dr. George Hendrick Houghton it has been a tradition that people come to services there from all walks of life, all races and creeds. Rector Ray is the third rector at the Little Church Around the Corner in all the 80 years of its existence, his immediate predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector Ray's interest in theatrical people...
Although the Little Church Around the Corner could be hidden behind the leaping spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, or tucked into the crypt of Bishop Manning's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it is the most famed church in Manhattan...
...sailed around the Eiffel Tower, won a 100,000 franc prize. His experiments he describes in My Airships, published in 1904 by the Century Co. TIME will pay $5 for a copy of My Airships...
...ceiling stretched over Chicago's Coliseum last week. It was intended to represent the sky; few of the thousands who visited the first International Aeronautical Exposition under that dyed sky paid attention to it. Airport beacons flicked their beams about the room; few noticed them. People hurried around the Coliseum and two auxiliary show buildings to see and buy airplanes...
...guarding jealously the Biddle fame and fortune, both of which were founded by Nicholas Biddle just after the Revolutionary War. Biddle Sr. was once a better boxer than his son; he allowed his proficiency to lead him to a pursuit which he called Athletic Christianity and which he preached around the world...