Word: bede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Built on the site of the wooden church in which, according to Bede, King Edwin was baptized by Paulinus on Easter...
...loved the past, and the old life of England, and yet she was one of the first, as she remains one of the greatest, of realists; for she saw through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede", dealing with English life an with people whom the author knew, are analyzed clearly in Miss Haldane's book, and recommended as the best for the casual reader whose acquaince is limited to "Silas Marner...
...from the Ecclesiastical History written by the "venerable" Bede that we gain what knowledge there is of Cadman and for that matter of Bede himself. In a short biographical note at the end of the History he says in conclusion. "From the time of my admission to the priesthood to my present fifty-ninth year. I have endeavored . . . to make brief notes upon the Holy Scripture either out of the works of the venerable fathers, or in conformity with their meaning and interpretation." And the fact that he was ordained deacon at 19 allows that he was regarded as remarkable...
...Magoun will lecture on the Cadmanian poems and Bede at 11 o'clock this morning in Sever...
...their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000. In January, a retired cattleman of Tucson told of an educated young Mexican sculptor, Timotio Odohui, who had lived with his parents at the limekiln 40 years ago and molded articles in a soft metallic alloy much like lead. Odohui had had a library...