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When the Rev. L. G. Barnhart, a Baptist preacher in Roman Catholic Quebec, investigated the disappearance of the sermons he mailed to the village of Ste. Germaine, he made a startling discovery. They were being turned over to the priest at Ste. Germaine, the Rev. Alfred Roy, who burned them. Such letters, said Father Roy, "would give people wrong ideas. They can't take me to court for that, can they?" Said Archibishop Léger of Montreal last week: "The church . . . calls upon all people of good will not to implicate the whole church in a culpable...
...ballast reduced to cut her draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they watched the International Rapids plunge in wasted, foamy fury toward the sea, saw where generators could be built to pump 3,400,000 h.p. of electric energy into U.S. and Canadian industry...
...canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume 150,000 tons of steel and 7,300,000 barrels of cement...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
Readers of Barnhart's dictionary will not get a definition of the adjective evil that begins: "Injurious, mischievous." He speaks right up: "Bad; wrong; sinful; wicked." As for agate, he suppresses "a variegated chalcedony" and makes it "a variety of quartz...